NURSE

nanny, nursemaid, nurse

(noun) a woman who is the custodian of children

nurse

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

nurse

(verb) try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury; “He nursed his cold with Chinese herbs”

breastfeed, suckle, suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, give suck

(verb) give suck to; “The wetnurse suckled the infant”; “You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places”

harbor, harbour, hold, entertain, nurse

(verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings); “bear a grudge”; “entertain interesting notions”; “harbor a resentment”

nurse

(verb) 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”

nurse

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

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

nurse (plural nurses)

(archaic) A wet nurse.

A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young.

A person trained to provide care for the sick.

(figurative) One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters.

(horticulture) A shrub or tree that protects a young plant.

(nautical) 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 nurse shark.

Usage notes

• Some speakers consider nurses (medical workers) to be female by default, and thus use "male nurse" to refer to a man doing the same job.

Verb

nurse (third-person singular simple present nurses, present participle nursing, simple past and past participle nursed)

(transitive) To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle.

(intransitive) To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast.

(transitive) To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to.

to treat kindly and with extra care

to manage with care and economy

Synonym: husband

to drink slowly

to foster, to nourish

to hold closely to one's chest

(billiards) To strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots.

Usage notes

In sense “to drink slowly”, generally negative and particularly used for someone at a bar, suggesting they either cannot afford to buy another drink or are too miserly to do so. By contrast, sip is more neutral.

Synonyms

• (drink slowly): sip, see also drink

Anagrams

• Nuers, Suren, Unser, runes, urnes

Proper noun

Nurse (plural Nurses)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Nurse is the 11327^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2786 individuals. Nurse is most common among Black/African American (69.02%) and White (21.18%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Nuers, Suren, Unser, runes, urnes

Source: Wiktionary

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Nurse, n. Etym: [OE. nourse, nurice, norice, OF. nurrice, norrice, nourrice, F. nourrice, fr. L. nutricia nurse, prop., fem. of nutricius that nourishes; akin to nutrix, -icis, nurse, fr. nutrire to nourish. See Nourish, and cf. Nutritious.]

1. 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. One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like. The nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise. Burke.

3. (Naut.)

Definition: A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place.

4. (Zoöl.) (a) A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariæ by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia. (b) Either one of the nurse sharks. Nurse shark. (Zoöl.) (a) A large arctic shark (Somniosus microcephalus), having small teeth and feeble jaws; -- called also sleeper shark, and ground shark. (b) A large shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum), native of the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico, having the dorsal fins situated behind the ventral fins.

– To put to nurse, or To put out to nurse, to send away to be nursed; to place in the care of a nurse.

– Wet nurse, Dry nurse. See Wet nurse, and Dry nurse, in the Vocabulary.

Nurse, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nursed; p. pr. & vb. n. Nursing.]

1. To nourish; to cherish; to foster; as: (a) To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant. (b) To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon. Sons wont to nurse their parents in old age. Milton. Him in Egerian groves Aricia bore, And nursed his youth along the marshy shore. Dryden.

2. 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. "To nurse the saplings tall." Milton. By what hands [has vice] been nursed into so uncontrolled a dominion Locke.

3. To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources.

4. To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does. A. Trollope. To nurse billiard balls, to strike them gently and so as to keep them in good position during a series of caroms.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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