A nursery rhyme is a short traditional song for small children. Sing a nursery rhyme.
The rhythm teaches the sound of a language before any of the words are understood. Many a nursery rhyme has a grim history that nobody mentions while singing it.
1nounnursery rhymeA short traditional song for small children.
“Every nursery rhyme in that book was three hundred years old.”
nursery rhyme is a song.
Named from the nursery, the room where Victorian children were kept and taught.
From how Victorian and Edwardian parents used to tell such rhymes to their children in the nursery, i.e. the children's bedroom.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Babies & Growing Up