Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The action of raising or caring for offspring.
- noun Biology The sum of environmental influences and conditions acting on an organism, especially in contrast to heredity.
- noun The fostering or overseeing of the development of something.
- noun Something that nourishes; sustenance.
- transitive verb To raise or educate (a child, for example).
- transitive verb To encourage or help develop; cultivate.
- transitive verb To provide sustenance for; nourish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To feed; nourish.
- To educate; bring or train up.
- Synonyms and Nurse, Nourish, Nurture. These words are of the same origin. Nurse has the least, and nourish much, of figurative use. Nurture expresses most of thoughtful care and moral discipline: it is not now used in any but this secondary sense.
- To instruct, school, rear, breed, discipline.
- noun The act of supplying with nourishment; the act or process of cultivating or promoting growth.
- noun Upbringing; training; discipline; instruction; education; breeding, especially good breeding.
- noun Nourishment; that which nourishes; food; diet.
- noun Synonyms Training, Discipline, etc. (see
instruction ), schooling.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training.
- noun That which nourishes; food; diet.
- transitive verb To feed; to nourish.
- transitive verb To educate; to bring or train up.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
nourishing ornursing ; tendercare ;education ;training . - noun That which
nourishes ;food ;diet . - noun The
environmental influences that contribute to the development of an individual; see alsonature . - verb to
nourish ornurse
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb provide with nourishment
- noun the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
- noun helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
- verb bring up
- verb help develop, help grow
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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˜evolutionary biopsychosocial model™ is meant to encompass the life-history connection between specific components of nature and specific components of nurture that can be expressed teleologically either as ˜nature operates via nurture™ or ˜nurture operates via nature.™
Sociobiology Holcomb, Harmon 2005
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At the top of the list is the need for the child to receive unconditional love, empathy and nurture from a parent.
Smith helps show what the Tories really are… « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings… 2009
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But the leading edge, the next Boom economy that the state not only needs to nurture but has already begun to nurture, is in greentech.
William Bradley: Why on Earth Would Jerry Brown Want to Be Governor of California? William Bradley 2010
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But the leading edge, the next Boom economy that the state not only needs to nurture but has already begun to nurture, is in greentech.
William Bradley: Why on Earth Would Jerry Brown Want to Be Governor of California? William Bradley 2010
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But the leading edge, the next Boom economy that the state not only needs to nurture but has already begun to nurture, is in greentech.
William Bradley: Why on Earth Would Jerry Brown Want to Be Governor of California? William Bradley 2010
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It's important to realize that for evaluating the likelihood of Idiocracy or Freakonomics, it doesn't particularly matter whether nature or nurture is the driving force in molding the next generation.
Dysculturation?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The industry the farmers are trying to nurture is also - like most markets in China - plagued with fakes.
Young Chinese farmers sowing seeds for organic revolution William Wan Washington Post Foreign Service 2010
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And in that book authors portrayed the opinion that nurture is what makes us what we are.
Archive 2009-02-01 Darwi 2009
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My question about nurture is in response to this remark byÂyou:
The Volokh Conspiracy » 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities 2010
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And in that book authors portrayed the opinion that nurture is what makes us what we are.
Human nature Darwi 2009
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