nurse
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Variant form of the archaic nourice, from Old French norrice, from Latin nutricius (“‘that nourishes’”), from nutrix (“‘wet nurse’”), from nutrire (“‘to suckle’”).
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nurse (plural nurses)
- (archaic) A wet-nurse.
- A woman who takes care of other people’s young.
- They hired a nurse to care for their young boy
- A person trained to provide care for the sick.
- The nurse made her rounds through the hospital ward
[edit] Translations
woman who takes care of other people's young
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person trained to provide care for the sick
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to nurse (third-person singular simple present nurses, present participle nursing, simple past and past participle nursed)
- to breast feed
- She believes that nursing her baby will make him strong and healthy.
- to care for the sick
- She nursed him back to health.
- to treat kindly and with extra care
- She nursed the rosebush and that season it bloomed.
[edit] Translations
to breast feed
to care for the sick
to treat kindly and with extra care
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- nurse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- nurse in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- nurse at OneLook® Dictionary Search
