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Definition nurse

Etymology

From Middle English norice, from Old French norrice, from Latin n?tr?cius (“that nourishes”), from n?tr?x (“wet nurse”), from n?tri? (“to suckle”).

Noun

nurse (plural nurses)

1. (archaic) A wet-nurse.
2. A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young.
3. A person trained to provide care for the sick.
4. (figuratively) One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters.
5. (horticulture) A shrub or tree that protects a young plant.
6. (nautical) A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.
7. A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.
8. A nurse shark.

Verb

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

1. to breastfeed
2. to care for the sick
3. to treat kindly and with extra care
4. to manage with care and economy
5. to drink slowly
6. to foster, to nourish
7. to hold closely to one's chest
8. to strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots

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