Usually means: Caring for patients, promoting health.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word nursing:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. nursing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. nursing: Merriam-Webster
  3. nursing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nursing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. nursing: Collins English Dictionary
  6. nursing: Vocabulary.com
  7. Nursing, nursing: Wordnik
  8. nursing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. nursing: Wiktionary
  10. nursing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. nursing: Dictionary.com
  12. nursing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Nursing (disambiguation), Nursing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Nursing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. nursing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. nursing: Rhymezone
  17. Nursing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. nursing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. nursing: FreeDictionary.org
  20. nursing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. nursing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nursing: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nursing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. nursing: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Nursing: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Nursing: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Nursing: Breast Cancer Glossary of Medical Terms
  8. nursing: Medical dictionary
  9. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  10. Nursing: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. nursing: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nursing: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See nurse as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  In the state of suckling young, lactating.
adjective:  Referring to nurses.
noun:  Suckling, such as breastfeeding.
noun:  The process or profession of caring for patients as a nurse.

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