Nursing - English meaning

Nursing – definitions in English dictionary

noun
The profession or practice of providing care for the sick and infirm.
Usage examples:
Not enough people are entering nursing

adjective
(of a mother) breastfeeding a baby.
Usage examples:
Nursing mothers need to replace lost fluids

verb
Give medical and other attention to (a sick person).
Usage examples:
He was gradually nursed back to health
Synonims:
Care forTake care ofLook afterTendAttend toMinister to
verb
Feed (a baby) at the breast.
Usage examples:
The women nursed their babies
Synonims:
BreastfeedSuckleWet-nurseFeed
verb
Try to play strokes which keep (the balls) close together.

noun
The job of being a nurse
Usage examples:
She studied nursing at northwestern university.

Nursing translation into English

Nursing: translate from English into Chinese

护理, 调护, 服侍, 看护的, 养育的

Nursing: translate from English into Dutch

Verpleging, Verzorging, Het verplegen, Zorgend

Nursing: translate from English into French

Allaitement, Soins, Allaitant, Profession d'infirmière

Nursing: translate from English into German

Pflege-, Pflege, Krankenpflege, Stillen, Pflegen, Pflegerisch

Nursing: translate from English into Hindi

नर्सिंग, उपचर्या, पालना, निगरानी, शुश्रूषा, संभालना, सेवा, पोषण

Nursing: translate from English into Italian

Assistenza infermieristica, Allattamento, Che allatta, Curare, Professione di infermiera, Che nutre

Nursing: translate from English into Korean

육아, 육아 업무, 직업으로서의 육아, 직업으로서의 육아 업무, 보육하는, 양아들을 보육하는, 양딸을 보육하는, 양육되는, 양아들로 양육되는, 양딸로 양육되는

Nursing: translate from English into Russian

Уход за больными, Уход, Кормящая грудью

Nursing: translate from English into Spanish

Enfermería, Lactancia, Cuidado, Asistencia

Word 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 nutri

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Nursing – similar words

nursed

verb
Give medical and other attention to (a sick person).
Usage examples:
He was gradually nursed back to health

noun
A person trained to care for the sick or infirm, especially in a hospital.
Usage examples:
A team of doctors and nurses

noun
A worker bee, ant, or other social insect, caring for a young brood.
Usage examples:
Nurse bees are special worker bees that attend the queen and the babies, or larvae, of the hive.

Nursed - all meanings in English

nurse

noun
A person trained to care for the sick or infirm, especially in a hospital.
Usage examples:
A team of doctors and nurses

verb
Give medical and other attention to (a sick person).
Usage examples:
He was gradually nursed back to health

noun
A greyish australian shark of shallow inshore waters.
Usage examples:
Here a grey nurse shark gets among the baitfish.

Nurse - all meanings in English

Nursing synonims

breastfeed

verb
When a mother breastfeeds her baby, she feeds it with milk directly from her breasts rather than with artificial or cow's milk from a bottle.

Breastfeed - all meanings in English

care for

keər

phrasal verb
Be fond of; be attached to

phrasal verb
To provide for a person or animal’s needs and to protect that person or animal
Usage examples:
Bob and his sister take turns caring for their elderly mother., i don’t care for seafood.

Care for - all meanings in English

feed

fiːd

verb
Give food to.
Usage examples:
Did you remember to feed the cat?

noun
An act of giving food, especially to animals or a baby, or of having food given to one.
Usage examples:
The baby's morning feed

verb
Make a payment to (someone) in return for services.

Feed - all meanings in English

look after

collocation
Keep under careful scrutiny

phrasal verb
Take care of someone or something.
Usage examples:
Meg is expected to come straight home from school and look after her younger sister

phrasal verb
To care for or be in charge of someone or something
Usage examples:
He looks after his son during the day., annie can look after herself.

Look after - all meanings in English

suckle

verb
Feed (a baby or young animal) from the breast or teat.
Usage examples:
A mother pig was suckling a huge litter

Suckle - all meanings in English

take care of

idiom
To be responsible for someone or something
Usage examples:
I have to take care of my little sister this afternoon., i was hoping a little money would take car…

Take care of - all meanings in English

tend

verb
Regularly or frequently behave in a particular way or have a certain characteristic.
Usage examples:
Written language tends to be formal

verb
Care for or look after; give one's attention to.
Usage examples:
Varela tended plants on the roof

verb
To be likely to happen or to have a particular characteristic or effect
Usage examples:
We tend to eat at home., children tend to be like their parents., he carefully tends his garden all…

Tend - all meanings in English

wet-nurse

noun
In the past, a woman employed to give her breast milk to another woman's baby

verb
To treat someone too carefully as if that person is unable to do anything himself or herself

Wet-nurse - all meanings in English

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