nursery
n. countablen. a place where young children are cared for while their parents are at work. It can also mean a place where plants are grown and sold.
n. a facility providing daycare for infants and young children; alternatively, a commercial establishment where plants are propagated and grown to usable size.
I drop my daughter off at the nursery every morning.
The local nursery is having a sale on fruit trees and rose bushes this weekend.
While the primary school is located in the village center, the nursery is situated on the outskirts to provide a quieter environment for the toddlers.
From Middle English noricerie, norserye (“children's nursery; state of being fostered or nursed; education, upbringing”) [and other forms], from Old French norricerie, nourricerie, from norrice, nourrice (modern French nourrice (“childminder, nanny; wet nurse”)) + -erie (suffix forming feminine nouns). Norrice and nourrice are derived from Late Latin nūtrīcia (“wet nurse”), from Latin nūtrīcius (“that nurses or suckles; nourishing”), from nūtriō (“to breastfeed, nurse, suckle”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₂- (“to flow”). The English word may be analysed as nourice, nurse + -ery (suffix forming nouns meaning ‘place of’).
Often used as a noun adjunct in phrases like 'nursery school' or 'nursery rhyme'.