📖 Definitions of "Nurses"
- 1
A wet nurse.
- 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
A person trained to provide care for the sick.
"The nurse made her rounds through the hospital ward."
- 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"."
- 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
To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast.
- 3
To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to.
"She nursed him back to health."
- 4
To treat kindly and with extra care
"She nursed the rosebush and that season it bloomed."
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Nurses"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| wet-nursenoun | Alternative spelling of wet nurse. [A woman hired to suckle another woman's child.] |
| nannynoun | A child's nurse. |
| nursemaidnoun | A woman or girl employed to care for children. |
| entertainnoun | (obsolete) Entertainment; pleasure. |
| holdnoun | A grasp or grip. |
| sucknoun | (uncountable) The ability to suck; suction. |
| sucklenoun | An act of suckling |
| give suckverb | (archaic) To suckle; to give milk from the breast (to). |
| breastfeednoun | An instance of feeding milk to a baby from the breasts; a breastfeeding. |
| lactatenoun | (chemistry) Any salt or ester of lactic acid. |
| harbournoun | (Commonwealth spelling) Standard spelling of harbor. |
| harbornoun | (countable, nautical) A sheltered expanse of water, adjacent to land, in which ships may anchor or dock, especially for loading and unloading. |
| appointeesnoun | a person who is appointed |
| assistantsnoun | A person who assists or helps someone else. |
| carenoun | Close attention; concern; responsibility. |
| caregiversnoun | (Canada, US, Philippines) A carer; a person who looks after another person. |
| carersnoun | (chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Someone who regularly looks after another person, either as a job or often through family responsibilities. |
| corpsmannoun | (US, military, nautical) A hospital corpsman. |
| counterpartsnoun | Either of two parts that fit together, or complement one another. |
| ensnoun | (philosophy) An entity or being; an existing thing, as opposed to a quality or attribute. |
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