nurse

nurse

US /nɝːs/ 
UK /nɜːs/ 

Someone whose job is to look after people who are ill or injured, usually in a hospital

nurse - پرستار
Persian equivalent: 
Example: 

This hospital has a very nice nurse.

Oxford Essential Dictionary

noun
a person whose job is to look after people who are sick or hurt:
My sister works as a nurse in a hospital.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

nurse

I. nurse1 S2 W3 /nɜːs $ nɜːrs/ BrE AmE noun [countable]
[Word Family: noun: ↑nurse, ↑nursery, ↑nursing; verb: ↑nurse]
[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: nurice, from Latin nutricius; ⇨ ↑nutritious]
1. someone whose job is to look after people who are ill or injured, usually in a hospital:
The nurse is coming to give you an injection.
The school nurse sent Sara home.
a male nurse
a senior nurse
a student nurse (=someone who is learning to be a nurse)
a psychiatric nurse (=a nurse for people who are mentally ill)
a community nurse ⇨ ↑district nurse, ↑staff nurse
2. old-fashioned a woman employed to look after a young child SYN nanny
⇨ ↑nursery nurse, ↑wet nurse

THESAURUS
take care of somebody (also look after somebody especially British English) to make sure a child or an old or sick person is safe and has the things they need: I have to look after my little brother. | Taking care of a baby is hard work. | She is taking care of her grandmother while her grandfather is in hospital.
care for somebody to take care of someone. Care for somebody is less common and more formal than take care of/look after somebody: He was cared for by a team of nurses. | Caring for an elderly relative can be very rewarding.
nurse to look after someone who is ill: He nursed his wife through a long illness. | The monks nursed him back to health (=looked after him until he was well again).
babysit to look after children in the evening while their parents go out somewhere: I’ll ask Jane to babysit on Wednesday night. | He used to babysit for Mary when she worked nights.
mind British English to look after a child while their parents are not there, especially for a short time: Will you mind the baby while I go to the shop?

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

nurse

nurse [nurse nurses nursed nursing] noun, verb   [nɜːs]    [nɜːrs] 

noun
1. a person whose job is to take care of sick or injured people, usually in a hospital
a qualified/registered nurse
student nurses
a male nurse
a dental nurse (= one who helps a dentist)
a psychiatric nurse (= one who works in a hospital for people with mental illnesses)
Nurse Bennett
• Nurse, come quickly!

see also  charge nurse, district nurse, practical nurse, registered nurse, staff nurse

2. (also nurse·maid) (old-fashioned) (in the past) a woman or girl whose job was to take care of babies or small children in their own homes
see also  nursery nurse, wet nurse  
Word Origin:
late Middle English: contraction of earlier nourice, from Old French, from late Latin nutricia, feminine of Latin nutricius ‘(person) that nourishes’, from nutrix, nutric- ‘nurse’, from nutrire ‘nourish’. The verb was originally a contraction of nourish, altered under the influence of the noun.  
Example Bank:
the children's staff nurse
a dental nurse
• a psychiatric nurse

• a qualified/registered nurse

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition

nurse     / nɜs /      / nɝs /   noun   [ C ]   
  
    A2     (the title given to) a person whose job is to care for people who are ill or injured, especially in a hospital:  
  He worked as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital. 
  Nurse Millard will be with you shortly. 
  [ as form of address ]   Thank you, Nurse. 
      old-fashioned   a woman employed to take care of a young child or children 

 
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Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

nurse

/nɜ:(r)s/
(nurses, nursing, nursed)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.
A nurse is a person whose job is to care for people who are ill.
She had spent 29 years as a nurse...
Patients were dying because of an acute shortage of nurses.
N-COUNT; N-TITLE; N-VOC

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary: 

1nurse /ˈnɚs/ noun, pl nurs·es [count]
1 : a person who is trained to care for sick or injured people and who usually works in a hospital or doctor's office
• The nurse will take your blood pressure before the doctor sees you.
Nurse, may I have some water?
- see also charge nurse, licensed practical nurse, registered nurse
2 old-fashioned : a woman who is paid to take care of a young child usually in the child's home

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