Florence Nightingale is famous as the woman who began professional nursing.
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Nursing
//ˈnɝsɪŋ//
Synonyms for "nursing" (3 found)
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Adjective(1 words)
Related words (1)
Adjective(1 words)
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5 entriesTranslations
37 translations across 20 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- تَمْرِيض adj (referring to nurses)
- تَمْرِيض noun (caring for patients)
Catalan
1 entries- infermeria noun (caring for patients)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 護理的 /护理的 adj (referring to nurses)
- 餵奶的 /喂奶的 adj (lactating)
- 看護 /看护 noun (caring for patients)
- 護理 /护理 noun (caring for patients)
Dutch
1 entries- verpleging noun (caring for patients)
Esperanto
1 entries- flegado noun (caring for patients)
Finnish
4 entries- hoitava adj (referring to nurses)
- imettävä adj (lactating)
- sairaanhoito adj (referring to nurses)
- sairaanhoito noun (caring for patients)
Galician
1 entries- enfermaría noun (caring for patients)
Hindi
1 entries- परिचर्या noun (caring for patients)
Irish
2 entries- altranas noun (caring for patients)
- banaltracht noun (caring for patients)
Japanese
1 entries- 看護 noun (caring for patients)
Korean
1 entries- 간호 noun (caring for patients)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- sjukepleie noun (caring for patients)
- sykepleie noun (caring for patients)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- sjukepleie noun (caring for patients)
Persian
1 entries- پرستاری noun (caring for patients)
Polish
1 entries- pielęgniarstwo noun (caring for patients)
Russian
4 entries- медсе́стринский adj (referring to nurses)
- се́стринский adj (referring to nurses)
- медсе́стринское де́ло noun (caring for patients)
- се́стринское де́ло noun (caring for patients)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- altram noun (caring for patients)
- eiridinn noun (caring for patients)
Spanish
1 entries- enfermería noun (caring for patients)
Swahili
1 entries- unesi noun (caring for patients)
Tamil
2 entries- செவிலிய adj (referring to nurses)
- செவிலியம் noun (caring for patients)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home, after all.
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He fainted from the heat, but his wife's patient nursing brought him to.
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Our daughter is none the better because we've been nursing.
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