Anyone with a parenting experience admits that being a teacher is not an easy task. If you think that raising a child as a normal person is easy, then practice on cats first. If you pass a similar school, then you can go to people. Although life itself will force over time. In the meantime, no one has succumbed to the carers, consider the verb "to foster". It will be informative and useful for the future.
Vernacular or high syllable?
Maybe this is strange, but a colloquial shade is heard in the word. If we are not alone in our doubts, we responsibly declare: the word “nurture” is a high style. At least that's what the explanatory dictionary says. But regarding the origin, there is no complete certainty, because information from the etymological dictionary can be transplanted into explanatory, and almost no one will notice the substitution. Therefore, we can not provide information about the history of the verb, unfortunately.
In order for the reader to have specific material in his hands, we will provide him with the meaning of the word “nurture”:
- Same as nursing (outdated).
- Carefully, lovingly grow, educate (high and figurative).
The narrative is not something that tells us, but insists that we reveal the meaning of the verb “to babysit”: look after the child. As you can see, while the object of study does not create problems for us. Everything is simple and clear.
Sample Suggestions
Let’s write, for example, five sentences where two sides of the meaning of the verb will be used:
- What a pity Ivan Nikolayevich, because he fostered almost the entire color of the current biological science, and the students loved him very much.
- Grandma was happy to fuss and nurture her grandchildren, and as a result, after 10 years they were more attached to her than to her mother.
- No need to ascribe to Nikolai Ivanovich what he did not do. He did not cherish anyone! He worked with ready-made material.
- And who remembers those teachers who, with labor and patience, then with blood, fostered students for universities? The main thing is that students themselves remember their origins and do not forget their first teachers.
- He had to replace his father's nephew, raise and nurture him as his own son.
It must be said that when a verb is used in its first meaning, its non-modernity becomes obvious, and the figurative meaning, on the contrary, does not hurt the ear. This subtlety should be remembered if you want to screw an interesting word in the conversation. It is very easy to get into trouble here.
Synonyms
Yes, we understood the meaning of “cherishing,” but this is not enough for us, like any inquisitive minds, we want to know more about replacements for it. Well, that’s quite fair. The list follows:
- to babysit;
- to educate;
- grow;
- teach;
- develop;
- cultivate.
We left some words outside the list for stylistic reasons. But it’s not so important to understand the content of the verb “to cherish”, it’s just that simple. Another thing is difficult: do not forget your mentors. At a certain stage, people begin to forget the names and faces of their teachers and think that they have achieved everything themselves. You can’t do this. You must always remember to whom you owe your knowledge. Try to educate and nurture (and it will be quite difficult) some animal, and you will understand what kind of titanic work teachers do.