Nurture

Noun

 * 1) The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training.
 * 2) That which nourishes; food; diet.
 * 3) The environmental influences that contribute to the development of an individual; see also nature.

Verb

 * 1) to nourish or nurse

Adverbs for Nurture
delicately; exquisitely; tenderly; solicitously; appropriately;  intellectually;   spiritually; lovingly; selflessly.

Thesaurus
TLC, abet, acculturate, advance, aid and abet, aliment, alimentation, ameliorate, amend, apprentice, apprenticeship, ask for, attend to, baby-sit, back, basic training, bear, better, bolster, boost, bosom, bread, break, break in, breaking, breast-feed, breed, breeding, bring forward, bring up, care, care for, chaperon, cherish, civilize, cling to, clip, coddle, comestibles, condition, conditioning, conserve, cosset, countenance, cradle, cultivate, cultivation, culture, daily bread, develop, development, discipline, drill, drilling, dry-nurse, eats, economic support, edibles, edify, educate, elevate, embosom, embrace, emend, encourage, endowment, enhance, enlighten, enrich, entertain, exercise, farm, fatten, fatten up, favor, feed, fetch up, fetching-up, fit, fondle, force-feed, form, forward, foster, fostering, give encouragement, go straight, groom, grooming, grow, grub, harbor, hatch, have, have and hold, hold, hold on to, house-train, housebreak, housebreaking, hug, improve, improve upon, improvement, in-service training, invite, keep, keep in countenance, keep watch over, lactate, lard, lavish care on, lick into shape, lift, livelihood, living, look after, look out for, look to, maintenance, make an improvement, manna, manual training, matronize, meat, meliorate, mend, military training, mind, minister to, mother, mothering, nourish, nourishment, nurse, nurturing, nutrify, nutriment, on-the-job training, pabulum, pamper, pap, practice, preparation, prepare, preserve, price support, promote, protege, provender, provide for, provision, provisions, put in tune, put to school, raise, raising, ranch, ready, readying, rear, rearing, refection, refine upon, reform, refreshment, rehearsal, rehearse, ride herd on, run, school, see after, see to, send to school, shepherd, sloyd, socialize, spoon-feed, straighten out, stuff, subsidization, subsidy, subsistence, subvention, suckle, support, sustain, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, take care of, take charge of, take in hand, tend, tender loving care, train, training, transfigure, transform, treasure, treasure up, upbringing, upgrade, uphold, upkeep, uplift, viands, victuals, vocational education, vocational training, watch, watch out for, watch over, wet-nurse

Etymology
From norture:, noriture: <  norriture:, norreture: <  nutritura: <  nutrire:.

Noun

 * Czech:
 * Finnish: ,


 * Greek: ,
 * Japanese: 育成 (ikusei)


 * Arabic: تنشئة,تربيه (tansh'ah), (tarbyah)
 * Czech:


 * Finnish:
 * Greek:

Verb

 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek: ,


 * Japanese: 育成する (ikusei-suru)
 * Spanish: ,

Related terms

 * nourish
 * nourishment
 * nurse
 * nursery
 * nurturance
 * nutrient
 * nutriment
 * nutrition
 * nutritional
 * nutritious
 * nutritive