word-vault/dist/data/cards/nu/nurse.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "nurse",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a person whose job is to take care of sick or injured people, usually in a hospital",
            "labels": "British EnglishNorth American English",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **registered nurse**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a qualified/trained nurse"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She trained as a nurse in Korea."
                },
                {
                    "text": "student nurses"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a male nurse"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a dental nurse *(= one who helps a dentist)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a psychiatric nurse *(= one who works in a hospital for people with mental illnesses)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a team of **doctors and nurses**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **nurses' station** *(= an office for nurses in a hospital)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Nurse Bennett"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Nurse, come quickly!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I work as a nurse in a busy hospital."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The country faces a growing shortage of nurses."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The school nurse provides excellent first aid."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She led them to a nurses' station and consulted with the sister"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He went to the South Bank University to become a qualified nurse."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Healthcare", "Jobs"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["certified", "experienced", "licensed"],
                "nurse + noun": ["practitioner", "educator", "manager"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "(in the past) a woman or girl whose job was to take care of babies or small children in their own homes",
            "labels": "(old-fashioned)",
            "examples": [],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["certified", "experienced", "licensed"],
                "nurse + noun": ["practitioner", "educator", "manager"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/nɜːs/",
                "audio": "nu/nurse/nurse__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/nɜːrs/",
                "audio": "nu/nurse/nurse__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: contraction of earlier nourice, from Old French, from late Latin nutricia, feminine of Latin nutricius ‘(person) that nourishes’, from nutrix, nutric- ‘nurse’, from nutrire ‘nourish’. The verb was originally a contraction of nourish, altered under the influence of the noun."
}