If you nurture something such as a young child or a young plant, you care for it while it is growing and developing. Parents want to know the best way to nurture and raise their child to adulthood The modern conservatory is not an environment for nurturing plants. + nurturing nur·tur·ing She was not receiving warm nurturing care. + nurturing nur·tur·ing Which adult in these children's lives will provide the nurturing they need?
Nurture is care that is given to someone while they are growing and developing. The human organism learns partly by nature, partly by nurture. the education and care that you are given as a child, and the way it affects your later development and attitudes
If you nurture plans, ideas, or people, you encourage them or help them to develop. She had always nurtured great ambitions for her son. parents whose political views were nurtured in the sixties + nurturing nur·tur·ing The decision to cut back on film-making had a catastrophic effect on the nurturing of new talent