nursing

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)sɪŋ

Adjective

nursing (comparative more nursing, superlative most nursing)

1. In the state of suckling young, lactating.

   The nursing bear wouldn't move far until her cubs were older.

2. Referring to nurses.

   The nursing staff worked overtime at the hospital.

Translations

lactating

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 喂奶的

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• Finnish: imettävä (fi)

referring to nurses

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 护理的

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• Finnish: sairaanhoito- (fi), hoitava (fi)

Noun

nursing (countable and uncountable, plural nursings)

1. Suckling, such as breastfeeding.
2. The process or profession of caring for patients as a nurse.

   She went into nursing as a career.

   • 1871, Florence Nightingale, Una and the Lion, page 6:

     Nursing is an art; and, if it is to be made an art, requires as exclusive a devotion, as hard a preparation, as any painter's or sculptor's work; […]

Translations

breastfeeding — see breastfeeding

caring for patients

• Catalan: infermeria f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 護理／护理 (zh) (hùlǐ), 护理 (zh) (hùlǐ), 護理學／护理学 (zh) (hùlǐxué), 护理学 (zh) (hùlǐxué)

• Dutch: verpleging (nl) f
• Finnish: sairaanhoitoala, sairaanhoito (fi)
• Irish: altranas m, banaltracht f
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sykepleie m or f, sjukepleie m or f

  Nynorsk: sjukepleie f

• Polish: pielęgniarstwo (pl)
• Scottish Gaelic: eiridinn m, altram m
• Spanish: enfermería (es) f

Verb

nursing

1. present participle of nurse

   The mother sat there nursing her baby.

Derived terms

• nursing bra

Anagrams

• unrings, urnings