Nursery

1. n. That which is nursed.
2. n. The act of nursing.
3. n. The place where nursing is carried on
4. n. The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children.
5. n. A place where young trees, shrubs, vines, etc., are propagated for the purpose of transplanting; a plantation of young trees.
6. n. The place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
7. n. That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.