Definitions for Nurse

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Nurse nurse

Spelling: [nurs]

IPA: /nɜrs/

Nurse is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in Nurse (enrsu).

Definitions for Nurse

noun

1. a person formally educated and trained in the care of the sick or infirm. Compare nurse-midwife, nurse-practitioner, physician's assistant, practical nurse, registered nurse.
2. a woman who has the general care of a child or children; dry nurse.
3. a woman employed to suckle an infant; wet nurse.
4. any fostering agency or influence.
5. Entomology. a worker that attends the young in a colony of social insects.
6. Billiards. the act of maintaining the position of billiard balls in preparation for a carom.

verb (used with object)

1. to tend or minister to in sickness, infirmity, etc.
2. to try to cure (an ailment) by taking care of oneself:
3. to look after carefully so as to promote growth, development, etc.; foster; cherish:
4. to treat or handle with adroit care in order to further one's own interests:
5. to use, consume, or dispense very slowly or carefully:
6. to keep steadily in mind or memory:
7. to suckle (an infant).
8. to feed and tend in infancy.
9. to bring up, train, or nurture.
10. to clasp or handle carefully or fondly:
11. Billiards. to maintain the position of (billiard balls) for a series of caroms.

verb (used without object)

1. to suckle a child, especially one's own.
2. (of a child) to suckle:
3. to act as nurse; tend the sick or infirm.

Origin of Nurse

1350-1400; (noun) Middle English, variant of n(o)urice, norice Old French Late Latin nūtrīcia, noun use of feminine of Latin nūtrīcius nutritious; (v.) earlier

Examples for Nurse

At the hospital, I was told to wait, and was given some tea by a nurse.

When nurse had gone she would lie still in her cot, waiting.

I learn by the third day to tell the nurse privately to make mine mostly orange juice.

Then Allison went back to Pacey, and Noah went back to nurse Abby from E.R.

She and her nurse had been stolen from the Ionian coast, by Greek pirates.

She set a career nominations record with her 21st nod—all in the TV fields—for Best Actress in a Comedy for nurse Jackie.

Phyllis, who was a nurse, went down to Mississippi to provide medical care for people like Joan.

My mother has been very ill; and would have no other nurse but me.

As between child and parent or nurse it is not argued about because it is inevitable.

You were scarcely two years old, when you and your nurse suddenly disappeared.