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Noun

nurse (plural nurses)

1. (informal) Anyone performing this role, regardless of training or profession.
   • My aunt was my nurse while I recuperated at home from surgery.
2. A medical worker performing this role, typically someone trained to provide such care but having credentials and rank below a doctor or physician assistant.
   • The nurse made her rounds through the hospital ward.
3. A medical worker, such as a registered nurse, having training, credentials, and rank above a nurse assistant.
4. (archaic) A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s children.
   • They hired a nurse to care for their young boy.
5. (figuratively) One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters.
   • Eton College has been called "the chief nurse of England's statesmen".
6. A shrub or tree that protects a young plant.

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