Nursing in the nursery, at home and at school

In what order would the following institutions (?) be occupied in the course of someone’s life?

• home nursery,
• home school,
• nursery school,
• nursing home,
• nursing school.

What is the likelihood that those terms will be found on wiktionary?

home nursery, unlikely, but home schooling likely. nursery school likely but nursing school unlikely. nursing home likely.

tinsoldier

home nursery Not found

home school — Noun: 1. A school within a private domestic place, rather than in a public facility or private institutno…

nursery school — Noun: 1. A school where pre-school children play and learn at the same te ..

nursing school Not found

nursing home — Noun: 1. A place of residence for people who require constant nursing care ..

Yay! All my predictions are correct. And I predict ‘nursery’ will be defined.

tinsoldier

nursery — Noun: 1. (countable) A place where nursing (‘breastfeeding’) or the raising of children ..

The order would be: home nursery, nursery school, home school, nursing school, nursing home.

Kids are going to be sent to nursery school and then home schooled, perhaps after a bad experience in the nursery school, rather than the other way around.

They aren’t home schooled and then sent to nursery school to complete or round out their education.

The original question was from Irene Schoenberg’s Talk about Trivia and was about nursery school, nursing school and nursing home.

Do the other version of this question, NurseQuestion

tinsoldier

wet nurse — Noun: 1. A woman hired to suckle another woman’s child

suckle — Noun: 1. (obsolete) A teat., — Verb: 1. (transitive) To give suck to; to nurse at the breast, udder, or dugs., 2. (intransitive) To nurse; to suck milk from a nursing mother., 3. (transitive) To nurse from (a breast, nursing mother, etc.). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/suckle

Those two senses of suckle: “to nurse a baby at the breast” and “to nurse from the breast”, means nurse is an autoantonym, like ‘cleave’? Or does it mean it’s an ergative (labile) verb?

"The baby nursed from the breast."
"The mother nursed the baby at the breast"

"The ship sailed from the harbor."
"The pilot sailed the ship from the harbor."

I guess it’s ergative (labile), rather than an antonym, because the meanings are the same, whereas in cleave the meanings are quite opposite.

tinsoldier

nurse — Verb: 1. (transitive) To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle., 2. (intransitive) To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast., 3. (transitive) To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to., 4. to treat kindly and with extra car

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