Nurse

Noun

 * 1)  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.

Verb

 * 1) to breast feed
 * 2) to care for the sick
 * 3) to treat kindly and with extra care
 * 4) to drink slowly

Adjectives for Nurse
devoted; sedulous; mercenary; sole; hireling; avid; sapient; foul; exemplary; heroic; smart; bustling.

Verbs for Nurse
employ—; notify—; recruit —s; register—; train—; —administers; —allays; —alleviates; —assuages; —attends; —bathes; — cajoles; —cheers; —comforts; —consoles; —dresses; —eases; —massages; —refreshes; —reports; —salves; —smooths; — soothes.

Adverbs for Nurse
assiduously; devotedly; sedulously; avidly; heroically; maternally; gratuitously; affectionately; sympathetically.

Thesaurus
nanny, nourish, nursemaid, nurserymaid, nursing sister, nurture, nutrify, operate on, pamper, physic, plaster, poultice, practical nurse, practice, prepare, preserve, private-duty nurse, probationer, probationist, probe, promote, protege, provide for, public health nurse, purge, put in tune, put to school, raise, ready, rear, registered nurse, rehearse, remedy, ride herd on, rub, school nurse, scrub nurse, see after, see to, send to school, shepherd, sister, sitter, splint, spoon-feed, strap, student nurse, stuff, suckle, support, surgical nurse, sustain, take care of, take charge of, take in hand, tend, train, trained nurse, treasure, treasure up, treat, visiting nurse, wait on, watch, watch out for, watch over, wet nurse, wet-nurse, LPN, RN, advance, aliment, amah, apprentice, attend, attend to, ayah, baby, baby-sit, bandage, bathe, bear, bosom, break, break in, breast-feed, breed, bring up, care for, chaperon, charge nurse, cherish, cling to, clip, coddle, condition, conserve, cosset, cradle, cultivate, cure, develop, diagnose, discipline, district nurse, doctor, drill, dry nurse, dry-nurse, embosom, embrace, entertain, exercise, fatten, fatten up, feed, fetch up, fit, flux, fondle, force-feed, form, forward, foster, further, give care to, graduate nurse, groom, harbor, have, have and hold, heal, hold, hold on to, house-train, housebreak, hug, humor, improve, indulge, keep, keep alive, keep watch over, lactate, lavish care on, licensed practical nurse, lick into shape, look after, look out for, look to, mammy, massage, matronize, mind, minister to, mother,

Etymology
Variant form of the archaic nourice:, from norrice:, from  nutricius:, from nutrix:, from nutrire:.

Synonyms

 * sip, see also Thesaurus:drink

Noun

 * French:
 * German: Säugamme, Amme


 * Volapük: sügan,  hisügan,  jisügan


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: бавачка
 * Chechen: дорийша
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 保育員, 保育员
 * Czech:, kojná
 * Dutch: zoogmoeder, ,
 * Esperanto: vartisto
 * Estonian: lapsehoidja
 * Filipino:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Kinderfrau, Kindermädchen
 * Greek: ,
 * Icelandic: barnfóstra
 * Irish: banaltra
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 保母
 * Kalenjin:


 * Kamba:
 * Kikuyu:
 * Latvian: aukle
 * Livonian: lapsvȱidaji
 * Luhya:
 * Luo:
 * Macedonian: дадилка, негувателка
 * Meru:
 * Polish: opiekunka
 * Portuguese: babá (Brazil)
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: muime, banaltraim , màthair-altraim
 * Serbian: dadilja, negovateljica
 * Spanish: enfermero
 * Swahili:
 * Tagalog: yaya
 * Turkish: ,
 * Volapük: ciladünan,  cilahidünan,  cilajidünan


 * Arabic:, ممرضة
 * Egyptian Arabic:, ممرضة
 * Armenian: ,
 * Basque: erizain
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: infermer
 * Chechen: дорийша
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 護士, 护士, 看護, 看护
 * Min Nan: ,
 * Czech: sestra, zdravotní sestra , ošetřovatel, ošetřovatelka
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: flegisto
 * Filipino:
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician: enfermeiro
 * German:, , Pflegerin, Krankenpflegerin, ,
 * Greek:, , ,
 * Hindi: नर्स
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: hjúkrunarfræðingur, hjúkrunarkona,  hjúkka
 * Ido:


 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 看護師,  看護士,  看護婦,  ナース
 * Jèrriais: nosse
 * Korean: 간호원 (看護員)
 * Macedonian:, медицински брат
 * Malay: jururawat
 * Maltese: infermier, infermiera , ners and
 * Norwegian:, pleier, pleierske
 * Persian: پرستار
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: bean-eiridinn, bean-eiridnidh , neach-eiridinn
 * Serbian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: nars
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu: نرس
 * Vietnamese: y tá
 * Volapük: kälan,  hikälan,  jikälan

Verb

 * Czech:
 * Dutch: borstvoeden,
 * Finnish:
 * French: allaiter, donner le sein
 * German: stillen, dated: nähren
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian: szoptat
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: tabhair beathú cíche
 * Macedonian:
 * Serbian:
 * Slovak: kojiť


 * Czech: ošetřovat
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: (cure),  (nurse)
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: νοσηλεύω, γιατροκομώ, περιθάλπω
 * Hungarian: ápol


 * Indonesian:
 * Macedonian: негува
 * Polish: pielęgnować
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: negovati, pobrinuti, brinuti
 * Slovak: ošetrovať
 * Swahili: uguza
 * Tagalog: alaga, alagaan, mangalaga


 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,


 * Hungarian: ápol
 * Macedonian: негува
 * Polish: pielęgnować, opiekować się
 * Serbian: nega, negovati
 * Swahili: uguza
 * Tagalog: alagaan, ingatan

Derived terms

 * nurse practitioner
 * wet nurse, wet-nurse

Anagrams

 * Nuers
 * runes
 * urnes