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How to pronounce “nurse”
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Pronunciation guide for nurse
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of nurse with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- A tribute to nurses
but often we forget the names of our nurses.
- Definition summary
- A person involved in providing direct care for the sick:
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce nurse
A tribute to nurses
but often we forget the names of our nurses.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “nurse”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A person involved in providing direct care for the sick:
- A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s children.
- (figurative) One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters.
- (horticulture) A shrub or tree that protects a young plant.
- (nautical) A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.
- A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.
- (archaic) A wet nurse.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle.
- (intransitive) To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast.
- (transitive) To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to.
- (transitive) To tend gently and with extra care.
- (transitive) To manage or oversee (something) with care and economy.
- (transitive, informal) To drink (a beverage) slowly, so as to make it last.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cultivate or persistently entertain (an attitude, usually negative) in one's mind; to brood or obsess over.
- (transitive) To hold closely to one's chest.
- (transitive, billiards) To strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots.
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