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Nurse

/nɜːs/

A wet nurse.

📖 Definitions of "Nurse"

noun
  1. 1

    A wet nurse.

  2. 2

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

    "They hired a nurse to care for their young boy."

  3. 3

    A person trained to provide care for the sick.

    "The nurse made her rounds through the hospital ward."

  4. 4

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

    "Eton College has been called "the chief nurse of England's statesmen"."

verb
  1. 1

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

    "She believes that nursing her baby will make him strong and healthy."

  2. 2

    To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast.

  3. 3

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

    "She nursed him back to health."

  4. 4

    To treat kindly and with extra care

    "She nursed the rosebush and that season it bloomed."

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