Definition of Day nursery

1. Noun. A nursery for the supervision of preschool children while the parents work.

Exact synonyms: Day Care Center
Generic synonyms: Baby's Room, Nursery

Lexicographical Neighbors of Day Nursery

day game
day hospital
day in, day out
day in and day out
day in day out
day in the sun
day jessamine
day job
day labor
day laborer
day laborers
day labourer
day late, dollar short
day lily
day neutral plant
day nursery (current term)
day of reckoning
day of remembrance
day of rest
day of the month
day of the week
day off
day one
day or night
day out
day pack
day packs
day pupil
day pupils
day release

Literary usage of Day nursery

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association (1921)
"In the day nursery as a child-welfare agency these boundaries naturally fall into the ... The day nursery is the ideal place for such an effort to be made, ..."

2. Problems of Child Welfare by George Benjamin Mangold (1914)
"The day nursery. The day nursery has a limited value in educating mothers, but the total number of children cared for at the nurseries is insignificant ..."

3. Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, at the by National Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.). Session (1898)
"THE SCOPE OF day nursery WORK. BY MARY H. DEWEY, BOSTON. ... The day nursery, in its simplest, earliest form, was a home where the child might be left ..."

4. The Settlement Idea: A Vision of Social Justice by Arthur Cort Holden (1922)
"There is little doubt but that the day nursery, palliative though it may be, operates with greater usefulness when balanced by the social service work of a ..."

5. Social Workers' Guide to the Serial Publications of Representative Social by Elsie Mitchell Rushmore, Russell Sage Foundation (1921)
"Willing day nursery Societe des creches fund New York, ... day nursery and free kindergarten association day nursery bulletin of the United States National ..."

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