nurse
Meaning
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- A person trained to provide care for the sick.
- A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young.
- One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters.
- A shrub or tree that protects a young plant.
- A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.
- A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.
- A wet nurse.
Synonyms
tend to
give medicine to
dress a wound
give suck to
keep vigil over a sick
sick nurse
bring somebody up
raise with care
healthcar provider
care worker
suck milk
see about
greater spotted dogfish
baby nurse
large-spotted dogfish
cater for
larger spotted dogfish
hospital attendant
minister to
monthly nurse
take good care of
one who in any way takes care of a sick person
one caring for sick person in any way
one who brings up a child
attend on
medical personnel
nurse-hound
female nurse
bull huss
flake catfish
greate-spotted dogfish
staff nurse
kindergarten teacher
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/nɜːs/
Etymology
From Middle English norice, from Old French norrice, from Late Latin nūtrīcia, noun based on Latin nūtrīcius (“that which nourishes”), from nūtrīx (“wet nurse”), from nūtriō (“to suckle”).
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