nurseries
- 1Plural of nursery.
Several local nurseries supplied the seedlings for the reforestation project.
The city inspected all of its licensed nurseries before the new term began.
Note
A regular plural: the y after a consonant becomes -ies. It serves every countable use of nursery: rooms set aside for children, daycare centers in British use, places where young animals are reared, and growers' plots of young trees and shrubs. Figurative nurseries, places where anything is fostered, pluralize the same way, so only context tells a plant seller from a playroom.
nurseries is a form of nursery
nursery, noun: An institution that cares for small children during the daytime, before they begin primary school, while their parents work; a daycare center. Full entry
- Forms
- nurserynurseries plural
- Spelling
- nursery → nurseries: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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