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Grammar : Noun, verb |
Spell : nurs |
Phonetic Transcription : nɜrs |
Definition of nurse
Origin :- 12c., nurrice "wet-nurse, foster-mother to a young child" (modern form from late 14c.), from Old French norrice "foster-mother, wet-nurse, nanny" (source of proper name Norris), from Late Latin *nutricia "nurse, governess, tutoress," noun use of fem. of Latin nutricius "that suckles, nourishes," from nutrix (genitive nutricis) "wet-nurse," from nutrire "to suckle" (see nourish). Meaning "person who takes care of sick" in English first recorded 1580s.
- noun person who tends to sick, cares for someone
- verb care for, tend
- verb give milk, usually from breast
- You were scarcely two years old, when you and your nurse suddenly disappeared.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- She and her nurse had been stolen from the Ionian coast, by Greek pirates.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- When Nurse had gone she would lie still in her cot, waiting.
- Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
- My mother has been very ill; and would have no other nurse but me.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- As between child and parent or nurse it is not argued about because it is inevitable.
- Extract from : « A Treatise on Parents and Children » by George Bernard Shaw
- A nurse stayed behind the screen, and her work was done by the others.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- When the night nurse came on at seven, everything was all right.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- There were no rules to cover such conduct on the part of a nurse.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Far away was the night nurse's desk, with its lamp, its annunciator, its pile of records.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- He watched her go down the hall toward the night nurse's desk.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Synonyms for nurse
- advance
- aid
- assistant
- attend
- attendant
- baby sitter
- baby-sit
- bottle-feed
- breast-feed
- caretaker
- cherish
- cradle
- cultivate
- dry-nurse
- encourage
- father
- feed
- forward
- foster
- foster parent
- further
- give suck
- harbor
- humor
- immunize
- indulge
- inoculate
- irradiate
- keep alive
- keep an eye on
- keep tabs on
- lactate
- look after
- medic
- medicate
- minder
- minister to
- mother
- nourish
- nurse practitioner
- nurture
- pamper
- practical nurse
- preserve
- promote
- registered nurse
- RN
- see to
- serve
- sit
- sitter
- succor
- suck
- suckle
- support
- take care of
- take charge of
- therapist
- treat
- vaccinate
- wait on
- watch out for
- watch over
- wet nurse
- wet-nurse
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