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Words related to nurse

Related / Similar Words: nanny, nursemaid, breastfeed, bottle-feed, suckle, suck, wet-nurse, lactate, give suck, harbor, harbour, hold, entertain

Definition:

a woman who is the custodian of children;

one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician);

try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury; "He nursed his cold with Chinese herbs";

give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places";

maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings); "bear a grudge"; "entertain interesting notions"; "harbor a resentment";

treat carefully; "He nursed his injured back by liyng in bed several hours every afternoon"; "He nursed the flowers in his garden and fertilized them regularly";

serve as a nurse; care for sick or handicapped people;

Hyponyms: dry nurse, mammy, wet nurse, wet-nurse, wetnurse, amah, foster-nurse, graduate nurse, trained nurse, licensed practical nurse, LPN, practical nurse, matron, head nurse, midwife, accoucheuse, probationer, student nurse, registered nurse, RN, scrub nurse, visiting nurse, Cavell, Edith Cavell, Edith Louisa Cavell, Nightingale, Florence Nightingale, the Lady with the Lamp, Sanger, Margaret Sanger, Margaret Higgins Sanger

Grouped Verbs: suck

Member Meronyms: nurse-patient relation

Derivational Morphology: breastfeed, bottle-feed, suckle, suck, wet-nurse, lactate, give suck, nursing, lactation, suckling, nanny, nursemaid, breast feeding, nursery, baby's room, sucking, suction, sucker, nurser

Language Translations:
Chinese: 护士		Dutch: verpleegster and zoogmoeder
Estonian: lapsehoidja		Finnish: hoitaja and lastenhoitaja
French: infirmière and nourrice		German: Kinderfrau and Krankenschwester
Greek: τροφός and νοσοκόμα		Hungarian: ápoló
Italian: infermiere and nutrice		Japanese: 看護士 and 保母
Korean: 간호원		Maltese: infermier
Norwegian: sykesøster		Polish: opiekunka and pielęgniarka
Portuguese: enfermeira		Russian: медсестра
Serbian: bolničar and dadilja		Spanish: enfermera
Swedish: sjuksköterska

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