Synonyms for nurture
ˈnɜr tʃərnur·ture

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 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 WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 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

Matched Categories

1. • Encourage
   • Supply
   • Upbringing

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 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 WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. nurturenoun

   Synonyms:
   care, training, food, nourishment

2. nurtureverb

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

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 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. Mickey Mehta:

   Most people suffer in life because they ruin and sacrifice a certain beautiful today, for a hope of an uncertain glorious tomorrow. If today you destroy a potential seed, how will it flower tomorrow sow and nurture all the seeds today and MickeyMize your life! Share this with as many for a fragrant world.

2. Sipho P Nkosi:

   Never seek what you are not, but nurture what you are.

3. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

   Happiness will bloom with fragrance and beauty if you plant the seeds of love with a deep driving desire in the garden of hope and nurture with tenderness, compassion, and care; if you are always eager to share.

4. Prem Rawat:

   It is in the minds of men that wars are created. It is from the hearts of human beings that peace will be created. If every individual were to value and feel at peace with themselves there would be no wars. There is something essentially good in every human being, when we find it, nurture it and live consciously, peace becomes a reality.

5. Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus:

   I would speculate that it is an effect that lasts, the brain develops rapidly from zero to six years of age, and the more exposure, the more you enrich and nurture these brain networks that are related to social and academic ability, the more the kid will gain the future.