nurse: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 5 letter points · starts with N · ends with E
Meaning of nurse
noun
- informal
A person involved in providing direct care for the sick: Anyone performing this role, regardless of training or profession.
Example: My aunt was my nurse while I recuperated at home from surgery.
A person involved in providing direct care for the sick: A medical worker performing this role, typically someone trained to provide such care but having credentials and rank below a doctor or physician assistant.
Example: The nurse made her rounds through the hospital ward.
A person involved in providing direct care for the sick: A medical worker, such as a registered nurse, having training, credentials, and rank above a nurse assistant.
- figuratively
One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters.
Example: Eton College has been called "the chief nurse of England's statesmen".
Listed forms: nurses, norice, nourice, nourse.
Source: Wiktionary — nurse.
verb
- transitive
To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle.
Example: She believes that nursing her baby will make him strong and healthy.
- intransitive
To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast.
- transitive
To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to.
Example: She nursed him back to health.
- transitive
To tend gently and with extra care.
Example: She nursed the rosebush and that season it bloomed.
Listed forms: nurses, nursing, nursed, norice, nourice, nourse.
Source: Wiktionary — nurse.
noun
A nurse shark or dogfish.
Listed forms: nurses, norice, nourice, nourse.
Source: Wiktionary — nurse.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for nurse.
noun
a woman who is the custodian of children
verb
maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
verb
give suck to
- breastfeed
- suckle
- suck
- wet-nurse
- lactate
- give suck
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is nurse in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of nurse
N(1) + U(1) + R(1) + S(1) + E(1) = 5 points.
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Anagrams of nurse
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from nurse
26 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in nurse. Showing up to 24, longest first.