nursery rhyme

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   a tale in rhymed verse for children

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Questions about nursery rhyme

What does nursery rhyme mean?

nursery rhyme means "a tale in rhymed verse for children".

Is nursery rhyme a common word?

nursery rhyme is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.