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Etymology

Variant form of the archaic nourice, from Old French norrice, from Latin nutricius (“that nourishes”), from nutrix (“wet nurse”), from nutrire (“to suckle”).

Pronunciation

Noun

nurse (plural nurses)

  1. (archaic) A wet-nurse.
  2. A woman who takes care of other people’s young.
    They hired a nurse to care for their young boy
  3. A person trained to provide care for the sick.
    The nurse made her rounds through the hospital ward

Verb

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

  1. to breast feed
    She believes that nursing her baby will make him strong and healthy.
  2. to care for the sick
    She nursed him back to health.
  3. to treat kindly and with extra care
    She nursed the rosebush and that season it bloomed.

Translations

to breast feed
  • Czech: kojit cs(cs)
  • Dutch: borstvoeden, zogen nl(nl)
  • Finnish: imettää fi(fi)
  • French: allaiter, donner le sein
  • German: stillen, dated: nähren
  • Greek: θηλάζω el(el) (thilazo)
  • Indonesian: menyusui id(id)
  • Irish: tabhair beathú cíche
  • Macedonian: дои mk(mk) (dói)
  • Serbian: dojiti sr(sr)
  • Slovak: kojiť
to care for the sick
  • Dutch: verplegen nl(nl)
  • Esperanto: kuraci eo(eo) (cure), flegi eo(eo) (nurse)
  • Finnish: hoitaa fi(fi)
  • French: soigner fr(fr)
  • German: pflegen de(de)
  • Greek: νοσηλεύω, γιατροκομώ, περιθάλπω
  • Indonesian: merawat id(id)
to treat kindly and with extra care
  • Dutch: vertroetelen nl(nl)
  • Esperanto: prizorgi eo(eo)
  • Finnish: hoitaa fi(fi), hoivata fi(fi)
  • French: soigner fr(fr)
  • German: hätscheln de(de)
  • Greek: περιποιούμαι el(el), φροντίζω el(el)
  • Macedonian: негува mk(mk) (néguva)
  • Polish: pielęgnować, opiekować się
  • Serbian: nega, negovati
  • Swahili: uguza sw(sw)

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