Noun: nurse
| Singular | nurse |
| Plural | nurses |
Sample Sentences
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My aunt was my nurse while I recuperated at home from surgery.
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The nurse made her rounds through the hospital ward.
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Francis Urquhart: Right. Mackenzie. Health. No chance of getting him into a demo at a hospital, I suppose?
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Tim Stamper: Doesn't go to hospitals any more. Kept getting beaten up by the nurses... I think he has trouble getting insured now. [1990, Andrew Davies, Michael Dobbs, House of Cards, season 1, episode 4:]
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They hired a nurse to care for their young boy.
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Eton College has been called "the chief nurse of England's statesmen".
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the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise [1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like nurse
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English norice, from Old French norrice, from Late Latin nūtrīcia, noun based on Latin nūtrīcius (“that which nourishes”), from nūtrīx (“wet nurse”), from nūtriō (“to suckle”). See: Middle English Nouns '
norice', Latin Nouns '
nūtrīcius'.
Verbs referencing "nurse"
French Nouns
nurse, Spanish Nouns
nodriza, Zulu Nouns
unesi, Romanian Nouns
nursă.