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nursery rhymes

nursery rhymes is the plural of nursery rhyme.

Meaning of nursery rhyme

Noun

nursery rhyme (plural nursery rhymes)

  1. A short poem or song for children, mostly anonymous or handed down by folklore

Questions about nursery rhymes

What is nursery rhymes the plural of?
Nursery rhymes is the plural of nursery rhyme.

Words near nursery rhymes in the dictionary

  1. nursery nurse
  2. nursery nurses
  3. nursery pudding
  4. nursery puddings
  5. nursery rhyme
  6. nursery rhymes
  7. nursery school
  8. nursery schools
  9. nursery slope
  10. nursery slopes
  11. nursery web spider

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nursery rhymes (page history and authors); nursery rhyme (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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