nursing

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English

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Pronunciation

Adjective

nursing (comparative more nursing, superlative most nursing)

  1. In the state of suckling young, lactating.
    The nursing bear wouldn't move far until her cubs were older.
  2. Referring to nurses.
    The nursing staff worked overtime at the hospital.

Translations

Noun

nursing (countable and uncountable, plural nursings)

  2. Suckling, such as breastfeeding.
  4. 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

Verb

nursing

  1. present participle and gerund of nurse
    The mother sat there nursing her baby.

Derived terms

Anagrams

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English nursing.

Noun

nursing n (uncountable)

  1. nursing

Declension

declension of nursing (singular only)
singular
n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) nursing nursingul
genitive/dative (unui) nursing nursingului
vocative nursingule
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