nurtureとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• nouriture (廃れた用法)
• nutriture (廃れた用法)

語源

From Middle English norture, noriture, from Old French norriture, norreture, from Late Latin nutritura (“nourishment”), from Latin nutrire (“to nourish”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɜːɹ.t͡ʃəɹ/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃə(ɹ)

名詞

nurture (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 nurtures)

1. The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care

   Synonyms: upbringing, raising, education, training

2. That which nourishes; food; diet.
   • 1633, Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande  […], Dublin: […] Sir James Ware; reprinted as A View of the State of Ireland […], Dublin: […] the Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] By John Morrison, 1809, page 110:

     Other great houses there bee of the English in Ireland, which thorough licentious conversing with the Irish, or marrying, or fostering with them, or lacke of meete nurture, or other such unhappy occasions, have degendred from their auncient dignities, and are now growne as Irish, as O-hanlans breech, as the proverbe there is.

3. The environmental influences that contribute to the development of an individual (as opposed to "nature").
   • 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i], page 15:

     A Deuill, a borne-Deuill, on whoſe nature / Nurture can neuer ſticke :

   • 1649, J[ohn] Milton, “Upon His Retirement from Westminster”, in ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [EIKONOKLASTES] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], OCLC 1044608640, page 59:

     […] a man neither by nature nor by nurture wiſe.

動詞

nurture (三人称単数 現在形 nurtures, 現在分詞 nurturing, 過去形および過去分詞形 nurtured)

1. To nourish or nurse.
   • 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], OCLC 633494058, chapter 70, page 344:

     Look where he would, some heap of ruins afforded him rich promise of a working off; the whole town appeared to have been ploughed, and sown, and nurtured by most genial weather; and a goodly harvest was at hand.

2. (figuratively, by extension) To encourage, especially the growth or development of something.
   • 2009, UNESCO, The United Nations World Water Development Report – N° 3 - 2009 – Freshwater and International Law (the Interplay between Universal, Regional かつ Basin Perspectives), page 10, →ISBN

     The relationships between universal norms and specific norms nurture the development of international law.

同意語

• (比喩的に, to encourage): See Thesaurus:nurture

関連する語

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