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nurse

English

Alternative forms

  • nourice (archaic)
  • norice (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English norice, from Old French norrice, from Latin n?tr?cius (that nourishes), from n?tr?x (wet nurse), from n?tri? (to suckle).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /n??s/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /n?s/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)s

Noun

nurse (plural nurses)

  1. (archaic) 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.
    • 1990, Andrew Davies, Michael Dobbs, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 4
      Francis Urquhart: Right. Mackenzie. Health. No chance of getting him into a demo at a hospital, I suppose?
      Tim Stamper: Doesn't go to hospitals any more. Kept getting beaten up by the nurses... I think he has trouble getting insured now.
  4. (figuratively) One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters.
    • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
      the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise
  5. (horticulture) A shrub or tree that protects a young plant.
  6. (nautical) A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.
  7. A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.
  8. A nurse shark.

Usage notes

  • Some speakers consider nurses (medical workers) to be female by default, and thus use "male nurse" to refer to a man doing the same job.

Derived terms

  • nurse practitioner
  • snotty's nurse
  • wet nurse, wet-nurse

Descendants

Translations

Verb

nurse (third-person singular simple present nurses, present participle nursing, simple past and past participle nursed)

  1. (transitive) To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle.
    She believes that nursing her baby will make him strong and healthy.
  2. (intransitive) To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast.
  3. (transitive) 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.
  5. to manage with care and economy
    Synonym: husband
  6. to drink slowly, to make it last
    Rob was nursing a small beer.
  7. to foster, to nourish
  8. to hold closely to one's chest
    Would you like to nurse the puppy?
  9. (billiards) To strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots.
    • 1866, United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, Supplemental report of the Joint Committee
      It is to our interest to let Lee and Johnston come together, just as a billiard-player would nurse the balls when he has them in a nice place

Usage notes

In sense “to drink slowly”, generally negative and particularly used for someone at a bar, suggesting they either cannot afford to buy another drink or are too miserly to do so. By contrast, sip is more neutral.

Synonyms

  • (drink slowly): sip, see also Thesaurus:drink

Translations

See also

  • matron
  • sister

Further reading

  • nurse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • nurse in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • nurse at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • Nurse in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

  • Nuers, Suren, Unser, runes, urnes

Middle English

Noun

nurse

  1. Alternative form of norice

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cherish

English

Etymology

From Middle English charish, cherishen (to have affection for, hold dear, treat kindly; to esteem, respect; to cherish; to take care of; to greet; to entertain, treat hospitably; to cheer; to encourage, incite), from Old French cherir, chierir (to cherish) (modern French chérir (to cherish)), from cher, chier (dear, dearest) (from Latin c?rus (beloved, dear), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh?- (to desire, wish)) + -ir (suffix forming infinitives of second conjugation verbs).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?t?????/
  • Hyphenation: cher?ish

Verb

cherish (third-person singular simple present cherishes, present participle cherishing, simple past and past participle cherished)

  1. To treat with affection, care, and tenderness; to nurture or protect with care.
  2. To have a deep appreciation of; to hold dear.
    Antonym: despise
  3. (obsolete) To cheer, to gladden.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

  • caress

Translations

References

Further reading

  • cherish (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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