Nurse Meaning
/nɜːs/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA person involved in providing direct care for the sick:
nounA person involved in providing direct care for the sick:, Anyone performing this role, regardless of training or profession.
Sentence Examples
The nurse is dressed in white.
The nurse took his temperature with a thermometer.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The caring ____ gently cleaned the wound and then applied a new bandage.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The dedicated ____ checked the patient's vitals every hour throughout the long night.
Word Origin & History
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”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 1990, Andrew Davies, Michael Dobbs, House of Cards, season 1, episode 4:
"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:
"If, like me, you have been confined to your home, glued to the news and nursing ever greater anxiety about the state of the world, you have probably become familiar with the sight of the World Health Organization’s director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and his daily press briefings."
— 2020 April 10, Stephen Buranyi, “The WHO v coronavirus: why it can't handle the pandemic”, in The Guardian:
"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"
— 1866, United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, Supplemental report of the Joint Committee:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The caring ____ gently cleaned the wound and then applied a new bandage.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The dedicated ____ checked the patient's vitals every hour throughout the long night.