nurse
/nɝs/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.40 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Example Sentences
- "My aunt was my nurse while I recuperated at home from surgery."
- "The nurse made her rounds through the hospital ward."
- "Francis Urquhart: Right. Mackenzie. Health. No chance of getting him into a demo at a hospital, I suppose? Tim Stamper: Doesn't go to hospitals any more. Kept getting beaten up by the nurses... I think he has trouble getting insured now."
- "They hired a nurse to care for their young boy."
- "Eton College has been called "the chief nurse of England's statesmen"."
- "the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise"
Etymology
From Middle English norice, from Old French norrice, from Late Latin nūtrīcia, noun based on Latin nūtrīcius (“that which nourishes”), from nūtrīx (“wet nurse”), from nūtriō (“to suckle”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /nɝs/
- British English: /nɜːs/