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An example use of nursery in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… hotel childcare and nursery facilities …”
Nursery is a room or building where children are cared for and educated.
the word nursery occurs in english on average 17.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.