Usually means: Caring for and encouraging growth.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. nurture: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. nurture: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nurture: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nurture: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nurture: Vocabulary.com
  6. Nurture, nurture: Wordnik
  7. nurture: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. nurture: Wiktionary
  9. nurture: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. nurture: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. nurture: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Nurture, nurture: Dictionary.com
  13. nurture: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. nurture: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Nurture (Porter Robinson album), Nurture (album), Nurture: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Nurture: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. nurture: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. nurture: Rhymezone
  19. Nurture: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. nurture: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. nurture: Free Dictionary
  22. nurture: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. nurture: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. nurture: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. nurture: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nurture: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. nurture: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. NURTURE: Acronym Finder
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. NURTURE: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nurture: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See nurtured as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care
noun:  That which nourishes; food; diet.
noun:  The environmental influences that contribute to a person’s development (as opposed to "nature").
verb:  To nourish or nurse.
verb:  (figuratively, by extension) To encourage, especially the growth or development of something.

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