1 a person whose job is to take care of sick or injured people, usually in a hospital:
a qualified / registered nurse * student nurses * a male nurse * a dental nurse (= one who helps a dentist) * a psychiatric nurse (= one who works in a hospital for people with mental illnesses) * Nurse Bennett * Nurse, come quickly!
seealsoCHARGENURSE, DISTRICTNURSE, PRACTICALNURSE, REGISTEREDNURSE, STAFFNURSE -< GENDER
2 (also nursemaid) (old-fashioned) (in the past) a woman or girl whose job was to take care of babies or small children in their own homes
seealsoNURSERYNURSE, WETNURSE
Part of speech: verb
1 [VN] to care for sb who is ill/sick or injured:
He worked in a hospital for ten years nursing cancer patients. * She nursed her daughter back to health. * She nursed her husband devotedly through his last illness.
2 [VN] to take care of an injury or illness:
Several weeks after the match, he was still nursing a shoulder injury. * You'd better go to bed and nurse that cold. * (figurative) She was nursing her hurt pride.
3 [VN] (formal) to have a strong feeling or idea in your mind for a long time
SYNHARBOUR:
to nurse an ambition / a grievance / a grudge * She had been nursing a secret desire to see him again.
4 [VN] to give special care or attention to sb/sth:
to nurse tender young plants * He nursed the car up the steep hill.
5 [VN] to hold sb/sth carefully in your arms or close to your body:
He sat nursing his cup of coffee.
6 (of a woman or female animal) to feed a baby with milk from the breast
SYNSUCKLE:
[V] a nursing mother * [VN] The lioness is still nursing her cubs.
compareBREASTFEED
7 [V] (of a baby) to suck milk from its mother's breast
SYNSUCKLE
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