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Is nurse a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word nurse is a Scrabble US word. The word nurse is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

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Is nurse a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word nurse is a Scrabble UK word and has 5 points:

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Yes. The word nurse is a Words With Friends word. The word nurse is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (2 found)

NURSE,RUNES,

4-letter words (12 found)

ERNS,NURS,RENS,RUES,RUNE,RUNS,RUSE,SUER,SURE,URES,URNS,USER,

3-letter words (18 found)

ENS,ERN,ERS,NUR,NUS,REN,RES,RUE,RUN,SEN,SER,SUE,SUN,SUR,UNS,URE,URN,USE,

2-letter words (9 found)

EN,ER,ES,NE,NU,RE,UN,UR,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 42 words from nurse according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of nurse

nurse unrse nruse rnuse urnse runse nusre unsre nsure snure usnre sunre nrsue rnsue nsrue snrue rsnue srnue ursne rusne usrne surne rsune srune nures unres nrues rnues urnes runes nuers uners neurs enurs uenrs eunrs nreus rneus nerus enrus renus ernus urens ruens uerns eurns reuns eruns nuser unser nsuer snuer usner suner nuesr unesr neusr enusr uensr eunsr nseur sneur nesur ensur senur esnur usenr suenr uesnr eusnr seunr esunr nrseu rnseu nsreu snreu rsneu srneu nresu rnesu nersu enrsu rensu ernsu nseru sneru nesru ensru senru esnru rsenu srenu resnu ersnu sernu esrnu ursen rusen usren suren rsuen sruen uresn ruesn uersn eursn reusn erusn usern suern uesrn eusrn seurn esurn rseun sreun resun ersun serun esrun

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word nurse. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in nurse.

Definitions and meaning of nurse

nurse

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /nɜːs/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /nɝs/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s

Etymology 1

From Middle English norice, from Old French norrice, from Late Latin nūtrīcia, noun based on Latin nūtrīcius (“that which nourishes”), from nūtrīx (“wet nurse”), from nūtriō (“to suckle”).

Alternative forms

  • norice, nourice, nourse (all obsolete)

Noun

nurse (plural nurses)

  1. A person trained to provide care for the sick.
  2. A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young.
  3. (figurative) One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters.
  4. (horticulture) A shrub or tree that protects a young plant.
  5. (nautical) A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.
  6. A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.
  7. (archaic) A wet nurse.
Usage notes
  • Some speakers consider nurses (medical workers) to be female by default, and thus use "male nurse" to refer to a man doing the same job.
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Verb

nurse (third-person singular simple present nurses, present participle nursing, simple past and past participle nursed)

  1. (transitive) To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle.
    She believes that nursing her baby will make him strong and healthy.
  2. (intransitive) To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast.
  3. (transitive) To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to.
    She nursed him back to health.
  4. (transitive) To treat kindly and with extra care.
    She nursed the rosebush and that season it bloomed.
  5. (transitive) To manage with care and economy.
    Synonym: husband
  6. (transitive) To drink slowly, to make it last.
    Rob was nursing a small beer.
  7. (transitive) To foster, to nourish.
  8. To hold closely to one's chest
    Would you like to nurse the puppy?
  9. (billiards, transitive) To strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots.
Usage notes

In sense “to drink slowly”, generally negative and particularly used for someone at a bar, suggesting they either cannot afford to buy another drink or are too miserly to do so. By contrast, sip is more neutral.

Synonyms
  • (drink slowly): sip, see also Thesaurus:drink
Translations

See also

  • matron
  • sister

Further reading

  • “nurse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “nurse”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “nurse”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • Nurse in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Etymology 2

Uncertain; earlier (16th century) nusse, nuse. Perhaps from huss, through metanalysis of "an huss" as "a nuss".

Noun

nurse (plural nurses)

  1. A nurse shark or dogfish.
Derived terms
  • grey nurse
  • grey nurse shark
  • nurse shark

Anagrams

  • Nuers, Suren, Unser, runes, urnes

Middle English

Noun

nurse

  1. Alternative form of norice

Source: wiktionary.org