nursing
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Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈnɝsɪŋ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈnɜːsɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪŋ
- Hyphenation: nurs‧ing
Adjective
nursing (comparative more nursing, superlative most nursing)
- In the state of suckling young, lactating.
- The nursing bear wouldn't move far until her cubs were older.
- Referring to nurses.
- The nursing staff worked overtime at the hospital.
Translations
referring to nurses
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Noun
nursing (countable and uncountable, plural nursings)
- Suckling, such as breastfeeding.
- The process or profession of caring for patients as a nurse.
- She went into nursing as a career.
- 1871, Florence Nightingale, Una and the Lion, page 6:
- Nursing is an art; and, if it is to be made an art, requires as exclusive a devotion, as hard a preparation, as any painter's or sculptor's work; […]
Translations
breastfeeding — see breastfeeding
caring for patients
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Verb
nursing
- present participle and gerund of nurse
- The mother sat there nursing her baby.
Derived terms
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Etymology
Noun
nursing n (uncountable)
Declension
declension of nursing (singular only)
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