nurse
noun
[ nəːs ]
• a person trained to care for the sick or infirm, especially in a hospital.
• "a team of doctors and nurses"
• a worker bee, ant, or other social insect, caring for a young brood.
nurse
verb
• give medical and other attention to (a sick person).
• "he was gradually nursed back to health"
Similar:
care for,
take care of,
look after,
tend,
attend to,
minister to,
• feed (a baby) at the breast.
• "the women nursed their babies"
• try to play strokes which keep (the balls) close together.
Origin:
late Middle English: contraction of earlier nourice, from Old French, from late Latin nutricia, feminine of Latin nutricius ‘(person) that nourishes’, from nutrix, nutric- ‘nurse’, from nutrire ‘nourish’. The verb was originally a contraction of nourish, altered under the influence of the noun.
nurse
noun
• a greyish Australian shark of shallow inshore waters.
Origin:
late 15th century: originally as nusse, perhaps derived (by wrong division) from an huss (see huss).
