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Definition of 'Nurse'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) nurse
a person formally educated and trained in the care of the sick or infirm, esp. a registered nurse.

2.  nurse
a woman who has the general care of a child or children.

3.  nurse
a worker that attends the young in a colony of social insects.

4. (v.t.) nurse
to tend in sickness, infirmity, etc.

5.  nurse
to try to cure (an ailment) by taking care of oneself:
to nurse a cold.

6.  nurse
to suckle (an infant).

7.  nurse
to handle carefully or fondly.

8.  nurse
to use, consume, or dispense slowly or carefully:
to nurse a cup of tea.

9.  nurse
to keep steadily in mind:
He nursed a grudge.

10.  nurse
to feed and tend in infancy.

11.  nurse
to bring up, train, or nurture.

12. (v.i.) nurse
to suckle a child, esp. one's own.

13.  nurse
(of a child) to suckle.

14.  nurse
to act as nurse; tend the sick or infirm.

Etymology: (1350–1400; ME, var. of n(o)urice, norice < OF < LL nūtrīcia, n. use of fem. of L nūtrīciusnutritious)

Definition of 'Nurse'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) nurse
one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician)

2. (verb) nanny, nursemaid, nurse
a woman who is the custodian of children

3. (verb) nurse
try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury
"He nursed his cold with Chinese herbs"

4. (verb) harbor, harbour, hold, entertain, nurse
maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
"bear a grudge"; "entertain interesting notions"; "harbor a resentment"

5. (verb) nurse
serve as a nurse; care for sick or handicapped people

6. (verb) nurse
treat carefully
"He nursed his injured back by lying in bed several hours every afternoon"; "He nursed the flowers in his garden and fertilized them regularly"

7. (verb) breastfeed, suckle, suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, give suck
give suck to
"The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places"

Definition of 'Nurse'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) nurse
sb who is medically trained to work in a hospital
one of the nurses assisting the surgeon

2. (verb) nurse
(of a woman or female animal) to feed a baby milk from her body
tips for new mothers who are nursing; a mother dolphin nursing her calf

3.  nurse
to take care of a sick or injured person
Her husband nursed her back to health.

4.  nurse
to be resting or having medical treatment for an illness or injury
Their star player is nursing a bruised ankle.

5.  nurse
to continue to feel an emotion or have an idea
She had always nursed the dream that her children would go to college.; an old rival who still nurses bad feelings toward her

Definition of 'Nurse'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Nurse
one who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm

2. (noun) Nurse
one who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like

3. (noun) Nurse
a lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place

4. (noun) Nurse
a peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia

5. (noun) Nurse
either one of the nurse sharks

6. (verb) Nurse
to nourish; to cherish; to foster

7. (verb) Nurse
to nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant

8. (verb) Nurse
to take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon

9. (verb) Nurse
to bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants, animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by, attention

10. (verb) Nurse
to manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources

11. (verb) Nurse
to caress; to fondle, as a nurse does

Translation of 'Nurse'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a person who looks after sick or injured people in hospital She wants to be a nurse.
Afrikaans: verpleegster	Arabic: مُمَرِّض، مُمَرِّضَه	Bulgarian: мед. сестра
Brazilian: enfermeiro	Czech: zdravotní sestra	German: der/die Krankenpfleger(in
Danish: sygeplejerske; sygeplejer	Greek: νοσοκόμος, νοσοκόμα	Spanish: enfermero
Estonian: põetaja, õde	Farsi: پرستار	Finnish: sairaanhoitaja
French: infirmier/-ière	Hebrew: אָחוֹת	Hindi: परिचारिका
Croatian: medicinska sestra	Hungarian: (beteg)ápoló	Indonesian: perawat
Icelandic: hjúkrunarfræðingur	Italian: infermiere	Japanese: 看護婦
Korean: 간호사	Lithuanian: slaugė, medicinos sesuo	Latvian: medicīnas māsa
Malay: juru rawat	Dutch: verpleegster	Norwegian: sykepleier/-søster
Polish: pielęgniarka, pielęgniarz	Persian: پرستار	Pashto: نرس،پرستار
Portuguese: enfermeiro	Romanian: infirmieră	Russian: медицинская сестра
Slovak: zdravotná sestra	Slovenian: bolničarka, sestra	Serbian: medicinska sestra
Swedish: sjuksköterska	Thai: พยาบาล	Turkish: hastabakıcı, hemşire
Taiwanese: 護士	Ukrainian: сиділка, доглядальниця	Urdu: نرس، تيمار دار
Vietnamese: y tá	Chinese: 护士
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