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Nurture - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Abet, Acculturate, Advance, Amend, Apprentice, Apprenticeship, Back, Bear, Better, Boost, Bosom, Bread, Break, Breaking, Breed, Breeding

Nurture is usually defined as the process of caring for and teaching a child as they grow. Often, it is used in debates as the opposite of "nature" (see nature vs. nurture), whereby nurture means the process of replicating learned cultural information from one mind to another, and nature means the replication of genetic non-learned behavior.

Example Usage of Nurture

gracixv5ab: Nurture and Mayo Clinic Study - Room Design Can Enhance Patient... http://tinyurl.com/y96ndmz
Fab44Me: Jon & Kate...did anyone think that marriage would work? U can't have a million kids and still have time to Nurture a marriage. Idiots
blairangela: @Q17 I can only speak on what my gay friends have said. They believe its from birth. Nature not Nurture. But Nurture isn't unfounded
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