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Grammar : Noun



Definition of nursery rhymes

  • As in rhyme : noun poetry in which lines end with like sounds
Example sentences :
  • "It's such ages since I read any nursery rhymes," said Monica.
  • Extract from : « The Jolliest School of All » by Angela Brazil
  • There is a hidden significance in some of the nursery rhymes.
  • Extract from : « Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 » by Charles Herbert Sylvester
  • See a fragment of it quoted in Halliwell, Nursery Rhymes, p. 276.
  • Extract from : « The Folk-Tales of the Magyars » by Various
  • Halliwell says many of these nursery rhymes are fragments of old ballads.
  • Extract from : « Child Life in Colonial Days » by Alice Morse Earle
  • The sources of our nursery rhymes are many, and slowly to be traced out.
  • Extract from : « The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 » by Various
  • His blunders and disasters are chronicled in penny chap-books and in nursery rhymes, of infinite variety.
  • Extract from : « The Book of Noodles » by W. A. Clouston
  • The childish mind of the young man seemed to delight in nursery rhymes.
  • Extract from : « Captain Ted » by Louis Pendleton
  • By all means begin with the infants, and let their songs and nursery rhymes be written so as to "give them a chance."
  • Extract from : « The Boy's Voice » by J. Spencer Curwen
  • Nursery rhymes, so often alluded to, lend themselves to an endless variety of imaginary people and places.
  • Extract from : « Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 » by Charles Herbert Sylvester
  • Between the nursery rhymes and the literature that follows is quite a gap, intentionally left by the editor.
  • Extract from : « Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 » by Charles Herbert Sylvester

Synonyms for nursery rhymes

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