noun. undefined

noun. The action of raising or caring for offspring.

noun. The sum of environmental influences and conditions acting on an organism, especially in contrast to heredity.

noun. The fostering or overseeing of the development of something.

noun. Something that nourishes; sustenance.

transitive verb. undefined

transitive verb. To raise or educate (a child, for example).

transitive verb. To encourage or help develop; cultivate.

transitive verb. To provide sustenance for; nourish.

To feed; nourish.

To educate; bring or train up.

Synonyms and Nurse, Nourish, Nurture. These words are of the same origin. Nurse has the least, and nourish much, of figurative use. Nurture expresses most of thoughtful care and moral discipline: it is not now used in any but this secondary sense.

To instruct, school, rear, breed, discipline.

noun. The act of supplying with nourishment; the act or process of cultivating or promoting growth.

noun. Upbringing; training; discipline; instruction; education; breeding, especially good breeding.

noun. Nourishment; that which nourishes; food; diet.

noun. Synonyms Training, Discipline, etc. (see instruction), schooling.

noun. The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training.

noun. That which nourishes; food; diet.

transitive verb. To feed; to nourish.

transitive verb. To educate; to bring or train up.

noun. The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training.

noun. That which nourishes; food; diet.

noun. The environmental influences that contribute to the development of an individual; see also nature.

verb. to nourish or nurse

verb. provide with nourishment

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

noun. helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

verb. bring up

verb. help develop, help grow

"˜evolutionary biopsychosocial model™ is meant to encompass the life-history connection between specific components of nature and specific components of nurture that can be expressed teleologically either as ˜nature operates via nurture™ or ˜nurture operates via nature.™"

age of nurture  guardian for nurture  

nourish  nourishment  nurse  nursery  nurturance  

acculturation  enculturation  socialisation  socialization  upbringing  

cradle  fledge  foster  

Bircher  searcher  

equipoise  incapability  inculcation  pleasure/pain  

TLC  abet  acculturate  advance  aid and abet  

nurtured  nurtures  nurturing