nurture
English Thesaurus
1. helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community (noun.act)
2. the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child (noun.attribute)
| hypernym | : | upbringing, |
| definition | : | properties acquired during a person's formative years (noun.attribute) |
3. help develop, help grow (verb.communication)
| hypernym | : | encourage, |
| definition | : | inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to (verb.emotion) |
| hyponym | : | serve, serve well, |
| definition | : | promote, benefit, or be useful or beneficial to (verb.stative) |
4. provide with nourishment (verb.consumption)
| hypernym | : | cater, ply, provide, supply, |
| definition | : | give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance (verb.consumption) |
| hyponym | : | carry, |
| definition | : | be able to feed (verb.consumption) |
5. bring up (verb.social)
| hyponym | : | fledge, |
| definition | : | feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight (verb.social) |
| hyponym | : | cradle, |
| definition | : | bring up from infancy (verb.social) |
| hyponym | : | foster, |
| definition | : | bring up under fosterage; of children (verb.social) |
| cause | : | grow up, |
| definition | : | become an adult (verb.social) |
6. helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community (noun.act)
| derivation | : | foster, nurture, |
| definition | : | help develop, help grow (verb.communication) |
| derivation | : | foster, further, |
| definition | : | promote the growth of (verb.social) |
| derivation | : | nurtural, |
| definition | : | resulting from nurture (adj.all) |
7. the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child (noun.attribute)
| derivation | : | foster, nurture, |
| definition | : | help develop, help grow (verb.communication) |
8. help develop, help grow (verb.communication)
| derivation | : | nurture, raising, rearing, |
| definition | : | the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child (noun.attribute) |
| derivation | : | fosterage, fostering, |
| definition | : | encouragement; aiding the development of something (noun.communication) |
9. provide with nourishment (verb.consumption)
| derivation | : | nurturance, |
| definition | : | physical and emotional care and nourishment (noun.act) |
| derivation | : | sustainable, |
| definition | : | capable of being sustained (adj.pert) |
10. bring up (verb.social)
| derivation | : | nurture, raising, rearing, |
| definition | : | the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child (noun.attribute) |
| derivation | : | ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock, |
| definition | : | the descendants of one individual (noun.group) |
| derivation | : | parent, |
| definition | : | a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian (noun.person) |
| derivation | : | birth, parentage, |
| definition | : | the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents (noun.linkdef) |
11. helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community (noun.act)
| derivation | : | foster, nurture, |
| definition | : | help develop, help grow (verb.communication) |
| derivation | : | foster, further, |
| definition | : | promote the growth of (verb.social) |
| derivation | : | nurtural, |
| definition | : | resulting from nurture (adj.all) |
12. the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child (noun.attribute)
| derivation | : | foster, nurture, |
| definition | : | help develop, help grow (verb.communication) |
13. help develop, help grow (verb.communication)
| derivation | : | nurture, raising, rearing, |
| definition | : | the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child (noun.attribute) |
| derivation | : | fosterage, fostering, |
| definition | : | encouragement; aiding the development of something (noun.communication) |
14. provide with nourishment (verb.consumption)
| derivation | : | nurturance, |
| definition | : | physical and emotional care and nourishment (noun.act) |
| derivation | : | sustainable, |
| definition | : | capable of being sustained (adj.pert) |
15. bring up (verb.social)
| derivation | : | nurture, raising, rearing, |
| definition | : | the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child (noun.attribute) |
| derivation | : | ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock, |
| definition | : | the descendants of one individual (noun.group) |
| derivation | : | parent, |
| definition | : | a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian (noun.person) |
| derivation | : | birth, parentage, |
| definition | : | the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents (noun.linkdef) |
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