Antonyms for nurse

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

Example sentences :

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

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