<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a room or place set apart for young children.</li><li>a nursery school or day nursery.</li><li>a place where young trees or other plants are raised for transplanting, for sale, or for experimental study.</li><li>any place in which something is bred, nourished, or fostered: The art institute has been the nursery of much great painting.</li><li>any situation, condition, circumstance, practice, etc., serving to breed or foster something: Slums are nurseries for young criminals.</li></ul>