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Meanings of nursery rhyme in English

Russian
малые жанры фольклора
Portuguese
cantiga de roda
Spanish
música infantil
Catalan
rima de guarderia
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Traditional song or poem for children.

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      малые жанры фольклора
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      Examples for "nursery rhymes"
      Examples for "nursery rhymes"
      1
      When I sang nursery rhymes to the kids, he was like: 'Stop.
      The Guardian
      2
      Forget airline food -Gervais throws a poison dart at nursery rhymes.
      Wired
      3
      There is a hidden significance in some of the nursery rhymes.
      Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10: The Guide
      4
      I sing nursery rhymes with him, and I read to him in French.
      The red queen
      5
      In 1990, he released an album made up largely of children's nursery rhymes.
      Reuters
      1
      Mother Goose rhymes abound in these nonsense refrains, and they are often fine examples of onomatopoeia.
      A Nonsense Anthology
      2
      Even the original sociopolitical meanings of Mother Goose rhymes are lost to the majority of people today.
      Mastering your Hidden Self
      3
      They can now rattle off scientific truths about their little digestions as fluently as Mother Goose rhymes.
      Dear Enemy
      4
      "I had a book of Mother Goose rhymes when I was a little kid," I said.
      Your sad eyes and unforgettable mouth
      5
      It was an old Mother Goose rhyme that she hummed over and over, in a low voice at first, but louder as she walked on.
      The Gate of the Giant Scissors
      1
      The most ordinary effect of fatigue upon this young lady was to make her resemble the hero of the nursery poem-
      Beechcroft at Rockstone
      2
      And she resolutely set herself to repeat one of the nursery poems of her childhood, till, wooed by its silly monotony, sleep came.
      Elizabeth's Campaign
      1
      The old Czech nursery song has an original perspective on where words may come from.
      Radio NZ
      2
      Ironical Bakkus began to hum the old nursery song:
      The Mountebank
      3
      Macaulay adduces as an example of this measure, the following line from the well-known nursery song:
      The Interdependence of Literature
      4
      Those are ENGLISHMEN, those are, and your master whenever you please,' as the nursery song says.
      The Book of Snobs
      5
      From Ann Taylor's nursery song 'My Mother.'
      Charles Dickens and Music
      1
      She was like the Grim White Woman in the nursery ballads.
      "My Novel" — Volume 06
      Usage of nursery rhyme in English
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      It's a nursery rhyme and she learned all the lyrics by heart.
      The Guardian
      2
      This explains the nursery rhyme which you have no doubt often heard-
      St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, January 1878, ...
      3
      She recognized it by the morbid nursery rhyme scrawled near the entrance.
      A Day Dark as Night
      4
      They're the ten little soldier boys of the nursery rhyme, I suppose.
      And Then There Were None
      5
      Did I sing a nursery rhyme to a tune all one note?
      Parkhurst Boys, and Other Stories of School Life
      6
      He reminds me of that fearful personage in the nursery rhyme:
      Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists
      7
      Katy adored one nursery rhyme the entire year she was four.
      Grave Secrets
      8
      Tattle O-Day A nursery rhyme that dates back hundreds of years.
      The Guardian
      9
      I liked adhering as closely as possible to my nursery rhyme.
      And Then There Were None
      10
      Thus far we have a variant of our favourite nursery rhyme:
      The Book of Noodles / Stories of Simpletons; or, Fools and Their...
      11
      She wondered who should be singing a nursery rhyme on a sinking ship:
      The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Volume 3
      12
      He glanced up at the framed nursery rhyme over the mantelpiece.
      And Then There Were None
      13
      It was the old nursery rhyme that she remembered from her childhood days.
      And Then There Were None
      14
      Perhaps the last five years have been one giant nursery rhyme, he wrote.
      Reuters
      15
      A nursery rhyme is the most sane, the most unselfish thing in the world.
      The Art of the Story-Teller
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      To propose in a nursery rhyme was something that shocked his sense of fitness.
      Out of the Ashes
      Translations for nursery rhyme