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Meanings of nursery rhymes in English
Russian
малые жанры фольклора Portuguese
cantiga de roda Spanish
música infantil Catalan
rima de guarderia 
Traditional song or poem for children.
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Examples for "nursery rhyme"
Examples for "nursery rhyme"
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It's a nursery rhyme and she learned all the lyrics by heart.
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This explains the nursery rhyme which you have no doubt often heard-
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She recognized it by the morbid nursery rhyme scrawled near the entrance.
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They're the ten little soldier boys of the nursery rhyme, I suppose.
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Did I sing a nursery rhyme to a tune all one note?
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Mother Goose rhymes abound in these nonsense refrains, and they are often fine examples of onomatopoeia.
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Even the original sociopolitical meanings of Mother Goose rhymes are lost to the majority of people today.
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They can now rattle off scientific truths about their little digestions as fluently as Mother Goose rhymes.
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"I had a book of Mother Goose rhymes when I was a little kid," I said.
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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.
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The most ordinary effect of fatigue upon this young lady was to make her resemble the hero of the nursery poem-
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And she resolutely set herself to repeat one of the nursery poems of her childhood, till, wooed by its silly monotony, sleep came.
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The old Czech nursery song has an original perspective on where words may come from.
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Ironical Bakkus began to hum the old nursery song:
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Macaulay adduces as an example of this measure, the following line from the well-known nursery song:
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Those are ENGLISHMEN, those are, and your master whenever you please,' as the nursery song says.
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From Ann Taylor's nursery song 'My Mother.'
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She was like the Grim White Woman in the nursery ballads.
Usage of nursery rhymes in English
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When I sang nursery rhymes to the kids, he was like: 'Stop.
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Forget airline food -Gervais throws a poison dart at nursery rhymes.
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There is a hidden significance in some of the nursery rhymes.
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I sing nursery rhymes with him, and I read to him in French.
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In 1990, he released an album made up largely of children's nursery rhymes.
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She laughed, and gave them a group of old nursery rhymes.
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In nursery rhymes the child is entertained with all the pageant of the world.
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Earlier they had nursery rhymes, songs, water exercises with jugs and spoons and cups.
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Here is one which calls our nursery rhymes to mind (p. 119):-
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Then he slips effortlessly into self-deprecation, political incorrectness and convoluted examinations of nursery rhymes.
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A random sample of 10 popular nursery rhymes shows this.
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He was losing it totally now, walking in a circle and reciting nursery rhymes.
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The songs are real songs, not dumbed-down hokey nursery rhymes.
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Cynthia knew her "Pilgrim's Progress" as many children know their nursery rhymes.
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St. Arles's eyes flickered then he shrugged off the comparison as nursery rhymes' rubbish.
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The classes are full of songs, nursery rhymes and stories to stimulate their young minds.
Translations for nursery rhymes
Russian
Portuguese
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