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Synonyms for nurture
ˈnɜr tʃərnur·ture

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English Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 2 votes

  1. nurture

    To cherish is both to hold dear and to treat as dear. Mere unexpressed esteem would not be cherishing. In the marriage vow, "to love, honor, and cherish," the word cherish implies all that each can do by love and tenderness for the welfare and happiness of the other, as by support, protection, care in sickness, comfort in sorrow, sympathy, and help of every kind. To nurse is to tend the helpless or feeble, as infants, or the sick or wounded. To nourish is strictly to sustain and build up by food; to nurture includes careful mental and spiritual training, with something of love and tenderness; to foster is simply to maintain and care for, to bring up; a foster-child will be nourished, but may not be as tenderly nurtured or as lovingly cherished as if one's own. In the figurative sense, the opinion one cherishes he holds, not with mere cold conviction, but with loving devotion.

    See synonyms for ABANDON; CHASTEN.

    Synonyms:
    cheer, cherish, cling to, comfort, encourage, entertain, foster, harbor, hold dear, nourish, nurse, protect, shelter, treasure, value

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  1. raising, rearing, nurturenoun

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

    Synonyms:
    raising, fostering, lift, rearing, breeding, bringing up, upbringing, fosterage, elevation

  2. breeding, bringing up, fostering, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringingverb

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

    "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important"

    Synonyms:
    rearing, education, breeding, fostering, facts of life, gentility, upbringing, training, bringing up, elevation, procreation, lift, raising, fosterage, reproduction, genteelness

  3. foster, nurtureverb

    help develop, help grow

    "nurture his talents"

    Synonyms:
    bring up, rear, sustain, foster, raise, nourish, parent, further

  4. rear, raise, bring up, nurture, parentverb

    bring up

    "raise a family"; "bring up children"

    Synonyms:
    kindle, rise, arouse, put forward, leaven, set up, upgrade, boot, provoke, elevate, kick upstairs, recruit, upraise, enkindle, put up, heighten, stir, refer, elicit, advance, conjure, lift, fire, farm, cite, grow, bring up, conjure up, resurrect, levy, advert, promote, nourish, prove, erect, raise, name, call down, get up, produce, call forth, invoke, mention, reboot, evoke, rear, foster, parent, sustain, rise up, enhance

  5. nourish, nurture, sustainverb

    provide with nourishment

    "We sustained ourselves on bread and water"; "This kind of food is not nourishing for young children"

    Synonyms:
    have, suffer, keep up, keep, support, hold up, hold, sustain, bring up, confirm, foster, nutrify, rear, aliment, get, corroborate, maintain, nourish, substantiate, affirm, raise, prolong, parent

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. nurturenoun

    Synonyms:
    nourishment, food, diet

  2. nurturenoun

    Synonyms:
    training, education, instruction, discipline, tuition, schooling, breeding

  3. nurtureverb

    Synonyms:
    feed, nourish

  4. nurtureverb

    Synonyms:
    train, educate, instruct, school, rear, breed, discipline, bring up

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. nurturenoun

    Synonyms:
    care, training, food, nourishment

  2. nurtureverb

    Synonyms:
    feed, nourish, nurse, educate, train, school

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "nurture":

    cultivate, nurturing, cultivar, feed, foster, cultivating, nurtured, promote

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How to use nurture in a sentence?

  1. Purvi Raniga:

    The magic lies within. To Heal yourself. To nurture yourself. To Empower and to dream. To learn and unlearn. To manifest your dreams. To thank for everything. The magic lies within.

  2. Hillary Clinton:

    When I was Secretary of State, President Obama and I worked with Aung San Suu Kyi and others on the ground in Burma to nurture flickers of progress into a real opening, as President, I will ensure that the United States continues to stand with them and with everyone around the world who seeks liberty and dignity.

  3. Rabbi Harold Kushner:

    Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.

  4. Business Minister Shriti Vadera:

    I love the Britain that can nurture immigrants like me and make them its own.

  5. Benjamin Disraeli:

    Nurture your mind with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes.


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