Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nurst

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: nurst
IPA

5

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

simple past and past participle of nurse

Archaic

name

Example Sentences

"They would not deign / To profit by a stain / On the honourable rules, / Knowing that practise perfidy no man durst / Who in the heroic schools / Was nurst."

Etymology

nurse + -t

Word Breakdown

Suffix: nurse

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

Nursts (plural)

Questions

What does nurst mean?: simple past and past participle of nurse
Where does nurst come from?: nurse + -t

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