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We found 40 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word nurse:
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General dictionaries General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. nurse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  2. nurse: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
  3. nurse: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. NURSE, Nurse, nurse: Wordnik [home, info]
  5. nurse: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  6. Nurse: Wiktionary [home, info]
  7. nurse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  8. nurse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  9. nurse: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  10. nurse: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  11. nurse (n.1), nurse (n.2): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  12. nurse: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  13. nurse: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  14. Nurse (Band), Nurse (Silent Hill), Nurse (album), Nurse (disambiguation), Nurse, The Nurse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  15. Nurse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  16. nurse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  17. nurse: Rhymezone [home, info]
  18. nurse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  19. nurse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  20. nurse: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  21. nurse: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  22. nurse: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  23. Nurse, nurse: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  24. nurse: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  25. nurse: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nurse: Natural Magick [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nurse: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nurse: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. nurse: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info]
  2. Nurse: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary [home, info]
  3. nurse: Technical and Popular Medical Terms [home, info]
  4. Nurse: Alzheimer's Association Medical Glossary [home, info]
  5. nurse: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  6. nurse: Dictionary of Cancer Terms [home, info]
  7. nurse: Medical dictionary [home, info]
  8. Nurse: Drug Medical Dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Nurse: Brilliant Dream Dictionary [home, info]
  2. nurse: Idioms [home, info]

Religion dictionaries Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nurse: Smith's Bible Dictionary [home, info]

Slang dictionaries Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nurse: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade [home, info]

Quick definitions (nurse)

noun:  one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician)
noun:  a woman who is the custodian of children
verb:  treat carefully ("He nursed his injured back by liyng in bed several hours every afternoon")
verb:  serve as a nurse; care for sick or handicapped people
verb:  try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury ("He nursed his cold with Chinese herbs")
verb:  give suck to ("The wetnurse suckled the infant")
verb:  maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
name:  A surname (rare: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #8450)

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Phrases that include nurse:   wet nurse, nurse practitioner, dry nurse, graduate nurse, practical nurse, more...

Words similar to nurse:   suckle, breastfeed, entertain, harbor, harbour, hold, lactate, nanny, nursed, nursemaid, nurser, nursing, suck, wet-nurse, caregiver, give suck, nutrice, sip, tend, more...


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