nurse:
(plural: ‘nurses‘; pronunciation: the letters ‘ur’ rhyme with the letters ‘ur’ in the word “urge” — for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
a hospital nurse
a person, usually a woman, who is trained to look after sick and disabled people, usually at a hospital;
a woman who is employed to take care of others’ young children; a nursemaid; a nanny;
(in old days before bottle milk came into use; also called ‘wet nurse‘) a woman who gave/suckle her milk to somebody else’s baby because that woman did not have enough milk in her to feed her own baby,
a nursemaid taking care of a baby as a job
There is a male nurse and a female nurse to attend to the needs of the ten patients in this hospital.
Hospital nurses deserve far more credit than they are usually given because they serve the sick people in ways that the close relatives of the patients find them nasty.
There is an advertisement in the newspaper for a nursemaid to look after two children of a family.
a coloured wet-nurse giving her milk to a white baby
