Antonyms for nursery rhymes
| Grammar : Noun |
Definition of nursery rhymes
- As in rhyme : noun poetry in which lines end with like sounds
- "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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