Usually means: Provides care for health needs.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word nurse:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Nurse, nurse: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. nurse, nurse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nurse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nurse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nurse: Vocabulary.com
  6. Nurse, nurse: Wordnik
  7. nurse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Nurse, nurse: Wiktionary
  9. nurse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. nurse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. nurse: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. nurse: Dictionary.com
  13. nurse (n.1), nurse (n.2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. nurse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Nurse (American TV series), Nurse (British TV series), Nurse (Lichtenstein), Nurse (Romeo and Juliet), Nurse (Romeo and Juliet character), Nurse (album), Nurse (band), Nurse (disambiguation), Nurse (film), Nurse, The Nurse (short film), The Nurse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Nurse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. nurse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. nurse: Rhymezone
  19. nurse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. nurse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. nurse: Free Dictionary
  22. nurse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. nurse: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. nurse: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nurse: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Nurse: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Alzheimer's Association Medical Glossary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. nurse: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  6. nurse: Medical dictionary
  7. Nurse: Drug Medical Dictionary

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

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nurse: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. nurse, nurse: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Nurse: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. Nurse: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See nursed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A person involved in providing direct care for the sick:
noun:  (informal) Anyone performing this role, regardless of training or profession.
noun:  A medical worker performing this role, typically someone trained to provide such care but having credentials and rank below a doctor or physician assistant.
noun:  (healthcare) A medical worker, such as a registered nurse, having training, credentials, and rank above a nurse assistant.
noun:  A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s children.
noun:  (figurative) One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters.
noun:  (horticulture) A shrub or tree that protects a young plant.
noun:  (nautical) A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.
noun:  A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.
noun:  (archaic) A wet nurse.
verb:  (transitive) To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle.
verb:  (intransitive) To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast.
verb:  (transitive) To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to.
verb:  (transitive) To tend gently and with extra care.
verb:  (transitive) To manage or oversee (something) with care and economy.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To drink (a beverage) slowly, so as to make it last.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To cultivate or persistently entertain (an attitude, usually negative) in one's mind; to brood or obsess over.
verb:  (transitive) To hold closely to one's chest.
verb:  (transitive, billiards) To strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots.
noun:  A nurse shark or dogfish.
noun:  A surname.

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