Definition of "nurse" in Anglais

noun

1. A person involved in providing direct care for the sick:

2. A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s children.

   • They hired a nurse to care for their young boy.

3. (figurative) One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters.

   • Eton College has been called "the chief nurse of England's statesmen".

4. (horticulture) A shrub or tree that protects a young plant.

5. (nautical) A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.

6. A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.

7. (archaic) A wet nurse.

verb

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. (transitive) To tend gently and with extra care.

   • She nursed the rosebush and that season it bloomed.

5. (transitive) To manage or oversee (something) with care and economy.

6. (transitive, informal) To drink (a beverage) slowly, so as to make it last.

   • Rob was nursing a small beer.

7. (transitive, figuratively) To cultivate or persistently entertain (an attitude, usually negative) in one's mind; to brood or obsess over.

   • to nurse a grudge

8. (transitive) To hold closely to one's chest.

   • Would you like to nurse the puppy?

9. (transitive, billiards) To strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots.

noun

1. A nurse shark or dogfish.