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creche

creche is the alternative spelling of crèche.

Meaning of crèche

Noun

crèche (plural crèches)

  1. A representation of the nativity scene.
    • At last, all was complete. The creche at Greccio looked like a new Bethlehem. The baby Jesus would be placed in the manger at midnight Mass.2007, Clyde A. Bonar, Amen, I Say to You, page 666
  2. (Ireland, UK) A day nursery.
    • They drop their two-year-old off at the crèche in the morning before they go to work.
  3. (historical) A hospital for orphaned infants; a foundling hospital.
    • One road leads to desertion of the child in a convenient hallway; another to the creche of a foundling hospital; a third, to a boarding home, good or indifferent, for the child.1894, Amos Griswold Warner, American Charities: A Study in Philanthropy and Economics, page 272
  4. (collective, marine biology) A group of young who stay together for protection.

Forms of creche

pluralcreches

Questions about creche

What is creche the alternative spelling of?
Creche is the alternative spelling of crèche.

Words near creche in the dictionary

  1. Creavagh
  2. crebrity
  3. crebrous
  4. Crebshaw
  5. Crebshaws
  6. creche
  7. creches
  8. Crecy
  9. cred
  10. credal
  11. Creddie

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Adapted from Wiktionary: creche (page history and authors); crèche (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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