Nurture

Definitions: Nurture

Nurture

Noun

1. The properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child.

2. Raising someone to be an accepted member of the community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important".

Verb

1. Help develop, help grow.

2. Bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children".

3. Provide with nourishment; "We sustained ourselves on bread and water"; "This kind of food is not nourishing for young children".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "nurture" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

NURTURE

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Nurture

Aid

Cradle, nourish; nurture, nurse, dry nurse, suckle, put out to nurse; manure, cultivate, force; foster, cherish, foment; feed the flame, fan the flame.

Belief

Think, hold; take, take it; opine, be of opinion, conceive, trow, ween, fancy, apprehend; have it, hold a belief, possess, entertain a belief, adopt a belief, imbibe a belief, embrace a belief, get hold of a belief, hazard, foster, nurture a belief, cherish a belief, have an opinion, hold an opinion, possess, entertain an opinion, adopt an opinion, imbibe an opinion, embrace an opinion, get hold of an opinion, hazard an opinion, foster an opinion, nurture an opinion, cherish an opinion; n.

Food

Food, pabulum; aliment, nourishment, nutriment; sustenance, sustentation, sustention; nurture, subsistence, provender, corn, feed, fodder, provision, ration, keep, commons, board; commissariat; (provision); prey, forage, pasture, pasturage; fare, cheer; diet, dietary; regimen; belly timber, staff of life; bread, bread and cheese.

Preparation

Elaborate, mature, ripen, mellow, season, bring to maturity; nurture; (aid); hatch, cook, brew; temper, anneal, smelt; barbecue; infumate; maturate. equip, arm, man; fit-out, fit up; furnish, rig, dress, garnish, betrim, accouter, array, fettle, fledge; dress up, furbish up, brush up, vamp up; refurbish; sharpen one's tools, trim one's foils, set, prime, attune; whet the knife, whet the sword; wind up, screw up; adjust; (fit); put in trim, put in train, put in gear, put in working order, put in tune, put in a groove for, put in harness; pack.

Teaching

Train, discipline; bring up, bring up to; form, ground, prepare, qualify; drill, exercise, practice, habituate, familiarize with, nurture, drynurse, breed, rear, take in hand; break, break in; tame; preinstruct; initiate; inure; (habituate).

Thought

Harbor an idea, entertain an idea, cherish an idea, nurture an idea; take into one's head; bear in mind; reconsider.

Crosswords: Nurture

And I am going to everything I can to nurture that talent and help him succeed, then I'm going to use him to live out all my frustrated hopes and dreams. (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)

Nurture them, make them beautiful. (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)

All you've ever done in your life is cook, clean, dust, sweep, scrub, suckle, and nurture. What would you possibly know about work? (Life with Louie; writing credit: Martin Miehe-Renard; Mette Andersen Ottesen)

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Books

• Bless the Day: Prayers & Poems to Nurture Your Soul (reference)

• Grandparents Are Special: A Tribute to Those Who Love, Nurture, & Inspire (reference)

• Raising Faith-Filled Kids: Ordinary Opportunities to Nurture Spirituality at Home (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Nurture (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• How to Grow & Nurture Seedlings (reference)

• Vocal Awareness: How to Discover, Nurture & Project Your Natural Voice (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Spirit of Nurture (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Levi Woodbury Secretary of the Treasury under Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren Helped nurture the Survey during the 1830's.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

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Health

In almost every case, nature (genes) and nurture (including the physical and chemical environment) work together to shape all living things. (references)

Business

Further, the Chinese government now realizes that improved protection of intellectual property rights will help China nurture its own growing software industry. (references)

The steady growth in purchases of legal software can be accounted for in part by the government commitment to buy new software as well as their desire to nurture a domestic industry that protects its software and intellectual property rights. (references)

Children

Guinea

The Constitution provides that the Government has a particular obligation to protect and nurture the nation's youth, and the Government allocates a significant percentage of the budget to primary education; however, the Government did not spend the allocated funds. (references)

Indonesia

In its budget for 2002, the Government allocated 1.0 percent of the GDP to education, or 0.74 percent of the country's GDP. A 1979 law on children's welfare defines the responsibility of the State and parents to nurture and protect children; however, implementing regulations have never been promulgated and, despite DPR deliberations during the year, the law's provisions on protection of children had not gone into effect by year's end. (references)

Economic History

China

China's participation in the global economy will nurture the process of economic reform and increase China's stake in the stability and prosperity of East Asia. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "nurture": nurture an idea. Additional references.

Beginning with "nurture": nurture-unit.

Ending with "nurture": nature-nurture.

Albanian

ushqim (aliment, alimentation, alimony, allowance, chow, chuck, comestible, cuisine, diet, dish, eatables, eating, fare, feed, feeding, food, foodstuff, grub, input, meat, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, pot luck, provender, repast, supply, sustenance, table, tack, Tommy), të ngrëna (feeding, food, repast), rritje (accretion, advance, augmentation, boost, breeding, climb, cultivation, development, evolution, expansion, extension, gain, germination, growth, increase, increment, intensification, progress, raise, upgrowth), edukim (breeding, education, upbringing), bukë (batch, bread, loaf, rooty). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غذى (feed, nourish, nurse, stoke, supply, sustain, underfeed), ‏حضن (baby sit, bosom, clasp, cuddle, enfold, kiss, lap, nestle, stain), ‏تنشئة (upbringing), ‏تغذية (alimentation, feeding, nourishment, nutrition, supply, sustenance), ‏تأمر (machinate, scheme), ‏تربية (breeding, education, upbringing), ‏أنشأ (construct, cradle, evolve, fabricate, father, form, foster, found, founder, germinate, institute, organize, originate, plant, start, structure, work up), ‏رعى (cherish, cultivate, foster, grass, groom, heed, inculcate, nurse, pasture, patronize, see to, shepherd, sponsor, take care of, tend), ‏ربى (bred, breed, bring up, cradle, educate, foster, invest, keep, nourish, nurse, raise, rear, school, sprout, tutor). (various references)

Bulgarian 

родителски грижи, хранене (alimentation, feed, feeding, meal, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance), храна (aliment, board, boarding, chow, chuck, diet, dietary, eating, edibles, fare, feed, fodder, food, fuel, meal, meat, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provender, rations, scran, sustenance, tack, viands, victuals), възпитаване (education), отхранване, откърмям (bring up, nurse, suckle), отглеждане (culture, fosterage, growth, upbringing). (various references)

Chinese 

�"�育 (feed, foster). (various references)

Czech

vychovat (bring up, rear), vychovávat (bring up, educate, raise, train, tutor), výchova (education, training, upbringing), potrava (aliment, food, nourishment, nutriment, sustenance), jídlo (chop suey, dish, feed, food, meal, repast, sustenance, tack, tuck, victual, victuals), živit (feed, maintain, nourish, suckle, support). (various references)

Farsi 

پرورش (Culture, Upbringing), پروردن (Breed, Encourage, Feed, Form, Harbor, Mother, Propagate, Rear, Train, Womb), غذا (Cuisine, Dish, Foster, Fuel, Meal, Meat, Nourishment, Nutrition, Provender, Viand), تغذیه (Nourish, Nourishment, Nutrition, Sustenance), تربیت (Civility, Gentry, Manner, Pedagogy, Steerage, Upbringing), باراوردن بچه . (various references)

French

nourriture, nourrir (nurse), mijoter (nurse), entretien, entretenir (nurse), couver (nurse), élever, éduquer. (various references)

German

nähren (alimentation, build up, etc.), feed, increase, nourish, nurse, other forms of precipitation, sublimation, to nourish, various processes which operate to increase the mass of a glacier or of a snow-field (deposition of snow). (various references)

Greek 

τρέφω (feed, fodder, nourish, nurse, sustain). (various references)

Hebrew 

לזון (feed, maintain, nourish), לטפח (breed, cherish, cultivate, inculcate, nurse). (various references)

Hungarian

táplálkozás (feed, feeding, nourishment, nutrition), nevelés (breeding, education, nursing, training), gondozás (attendance, attention, care, maintenance, nursing, servicing). (various references)

Indonesian

pengasuhan (care), mengasuh (educate, take care of), menaruh (foster, set), bela (care for). (various references)

Italian

nutrire (be nutritious, feed, feel, Harbor, harbour, nourish, nurse), nutrimento (aliation, feeding, food, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provisions, sustenance), vitto (board, fare, food, victual), allevare (breed, bring up, cultivate, farm, Foster, grow, nurse, raise, rear, to grow, to raise, to rear, train), allevamento (breeding, farm, fosterage, growing, raising, rearing, stock farming, stockrearing, upbringing). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

培養 (cultivation, culture). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ばいよう (cultivation, culture), いくせい (cultivation, promotion, rearing, training), やしない (bringing up, nourishment, nutrition, rearing). (various references)

Korean 

양육하십시�". (various references)

Manx

troggal (arise, boost, breed, breeding, bring off, bringing up, build, building, buzz off, construct, contract, contract as disease, contraction, development, edifice, elaborate, elaboration, elevate, freshen, freshen of wind, gather up, getting up, harvest, heave, heave as shoulders, hoist, input, invoke, lift, lifting, pick off; absorption, pick up, pull in, put up, raise, raise up, rally, rear, rearing, rig up, rise, set in rows, sing up, structure, take, train, train as child, winch, wind, winding), beeaghey (alimentation, feed, maintain, nutrition, support), beaghey (feed, foodstuffs, live, livelihood, maintain, nourish, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance). (various references)

Pig Latin

urturenay

Portuguese

nutrição (feed, nourishment, nutrition, nutritionist), treino (drilling fluid, exercise, trainer, training, training shoe), treinar (coach, exercise, form, manage, practice, practise, rehearse, school, train), sustento (diet, feed, food, keep, keeping, livelihood, living, maintenance, nourishment, pace, subsistence, support, sustenance), lactente (baby, breast-fed child, breast-fed infant, infant, nursemaid, suckling), estimular (abet, accelerate, actuate, arouse, awake, encourage, energy, excite, exhortation, fillister, flatterer, flush, galvanize, impel, incite, inspire, inspissate, irritate, jog, kindle, press agent, promote, put forward, quicken, rouse, stimulate, stir up, urge, vivify, waken, whet), educar (breed, bring up, civilize, coach, discipline, educate, form, polish, raise, rear, school, tame, train, tutor), educação (accomplishments, acquirements, breeding, courtesy, discipline, education, mannerliness, politeness, quiet manner, training, urbanity), criar (beget, breed, bring up, coin, cradle, create, educate, form, Foster, generate, keep, make, make up, mint, originate, preserve, raise, rear), criação (breeding, brood, chicken, creation, designing, foundation, genesis, making, origination), ato de educar, alimentar (aliment, alimentary, diet, dietary, fare, feed, food ( adj. ), food fibers, forager, Foster, nourish, nuts), adestrar (coach, gaiter, groom, school, train), adestramento (dressed, training). (various references)

Romanian

nutri (bear, cherish, eat, entertain, feed, Foster, foster hopes, Harbor, harbour, nourish, nurse), hrãni (carry, cherish, feed, fill, Foster, grub, Harbor, harbour, nourish, suckle), educare (cultivation, education, enlightenment), educa (breed, bring up, cultivate, educate, enlighten, form, raise, school), creştere (accretion, accrual, addition, aggrandizement, augmentation, development, education, enlargement, farming, fosterage, gain, growing, growth, heft, husbandry, increase, increment, jump, nurse, propagation, rise, rising, upbringing, upsurge), creşte (accrue, advance, augment, be up, breed, bring, bring up, crop, cultivate, develop, draw out, educate, go up, grow, grow rife, heighten, increase, intensify, keep, make, Mount, multiply, nurse, produce, propagate, raise, rear, rise, school, spring, spurt, straggle, train, wax), alimenta (feed, fill, inflame, nourish, Stoke, supply, support). (various references)

Russian 

выращивание, воспитание (breeding, education, training, unbringing, upbringing), обучение (drill, drilling, indoctrination, instruction, learning by insight, schooling, teaching, tirocinium, training, tuition, tutelage, tutoring), пища (aliment, diet, eating, eats, fare, food, foodstuff, grub, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, pabulums, prog, provender, victuals), питание (aliment, alimentation, aliments, alimony, board, feed, feeding, food, nourishment, nuitrition, nutriment, nutrition, supply, sustenance). (various references)

Scottish

oilean (education, instruction, training). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

negovanje (mothering, tendance), odnegovati, odhraniti, hranjenje (alimentation, feeding), hrana (aliment, chow, cuisine, eatables, fare, food, nourishment, nutriment, pabulum, prog, provender, tommy, trencher, viands, victual, victuals). (various references)

Spanish

nutrir (feed, nourish), nutrición (feed supply, feeding, nourishment, nutrition), educar (breed, bring up, civilize, educate, refine, train), educación (education, etiquette, fosterage, instruction, mannerliness, manners, politeness, refinement, school, upbringing), criar (breed, bring up, clone, create, engender, Foster, grow, keep, manufacture, produce, raise, ranch, rear, suckle, to create, to generate, to grow, to raise, to rear), crianza (breeding, growing, mannerliness, raising, rearing, stock farming, stockrearing, upbringing), alimentar (aliment, feed, nourish). (various references)

Swedish

uppföda (breed, bring up, nourish, raise, rear). (various references)

Thai

บำรุง, การให้การอบรม. (various references)

Turkish

yiyecek (aliment, chow, comestibles, eatables, fare, food, forage, grub, keep, prog, provender, scran, tack, tuck, victual), yetiştirmek (breed, bring up, coach, cradle, cultivate, discipline, educate, farm, groom, grow, produce, raise, rear, rush, school, train, turn out), yetiştirme (breeding, cultivation, culture, edification, growing, upbringing), terbiye etmek (break in, bring up, chasten, discipline, edify, educate, housebreak, manage, polish, rough, school, teach manners, train), terbiye (breeding, cultivation, decency, dressage, dressing, education, liaison, manners, politeness, sauce, schooling, seasoning), beslemek (breed, bring up, cherish, embrace, feed, Foster, Harbor, harbour, nourish, nurse, raise, suckle), besleme (alimentation, feeding, handmaid, lead in, nourishment, nurse, nutrition, servant girl, supply, sustenance, sustentation), bakım (aspect, attendance, attention, care, custody, handling, keep, keeping, maintenance, nurse, nurseling, nursing, nursling, overhaul, point of view, regard, respect, upkeep, way), büyütmek (aggrandize, amplify, augment, blow up, bring up, dilate, dramatize, enhance, enlarge, exaggerate, expand, Foster, glorify, greaten, grow, magnify, make big, make the most of, nourish, overstate, raise, rear, rebore, soup up). (various references)

Ukranian 

виховувати (breed, bring up, educate, nurse, train), леліяти надію, живити (feed, nourish, nutrify), навчання (apprenticeship, discipline, education, instruction, re-education, school, study, teaching, tuition), навчати (breed, discipline, qualify, re educate, teach, tutor), виношувати (breed, brood), виведення породи, виводити породу, плекати (cherish, nourish, nurse, nuzzle), виховання (breeding, education, training, upbringing), їжа (aliment, bait, board, chow, chuck, eating, fare, feed, feeding, fodder, food, meat, nosh, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, nutritive, pabulum, potluck, thing, Tommy, viand, victual), вирощування (growing, growth), вирощувати (grow, nourish, nurse, sprout), годування (alimentation, nourishment, nutrition), годувати (cater, diet, feed, meal, meat, nourish, nutrify), корм (bait, feed, foodstuff, nutriment, pabulum), харчування (aliment, alimentation, alimony, feed, feeding, food, living, meal, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance, sustentation), їда (eating, meal, repast), вигодовування. (various references)

Vietnamese 

đ�" ăn sự nuôi dưỡng sự giáo dục. (various references)

Welsh

meithrin (foster, rear), magwraeth (nourishment), maethu (nourish). (various references)

alimoniam, alimoniarum, alimonias, enutriat, enutrierint, enutries, enutriet, enutriit, enutristi, enutristis, enutriti, enutritus, enutrivi, enutrivit. (various references)

nourriture. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "nurture": nurtured, nurturer, nurturers, nurtures. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Nurture" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gurgureh, Normura, norture, Nugteren, Nurburg, nurtur, nutrure, nuture. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: untruer.

-1 letter: return, turner, untrue.

-2 letters: rerun, truer, tuner.

-3 letters: rent, ruer, rune, runt, tern, true, tune, turn.

-4 letters: ern, err, net, nut, ret, rue, run, rut, ten, tun, urn.

-5 letters: en, er, et, ne, nu, re, un, ut.

+1 letter: nurtured, nurturer, nurtures.

+2 letters: furniture, nurturers, uncurrent.

+3 letters: furnitures, nurturance.

+4 letters: incurvature, nurturances, supernature, underthrust, unperturbed.

+5 letters: counterargue, incurvatures, interculture, jurisprudent, manufacturer, neuropterous, seropurulent, supercurrent, supernatural, supernatures, tubocurarine, undercurrent, underthrusts, unreturnable, unstructured.

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