What is the name meaning of NURSE. Phrases containing NURSE
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NURSE
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : origin uncertain; perhaps a nickname for a foster parent, from Middle English foden ‘to nurse or nourish’.
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English
English : from an Old English personal name or byname Tutta, preserved in place names such as Tutnall (Worcestershire) and Tuttington (Norfolk), and apparently persisting into the Middle Ages. Its origin and meaning are unclear.German (also Tütt) : from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with Diet- (see Dietrich), or from a short form of Dudo, originally a name from nursery talk.
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Norse
A giant cow that nursed Ymir.
Girl/Female
Latin
Possibly from the Acca Larentia the shewolf who nursed the twins Remus and Romulus.
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German
German : East Frisian patronymic from the nursery name Mamme, linked to Middle High German mamme, memme ‘mother’s breast’ (Latin mamma).English (of Norman origin) : from the Old French personal name Maismon, Maimon, of unknown etymology.Indian (Kerala) : variant of Thomas among Kerala Christians, with the Tamil-Malayalam third person masculine singular suffix -n. It is only found as a personal name in Kerala, but in the U.S. has come to be used as a family name among Kerala Christians.
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German
German : from a Germanic personal name Poppo, Boppo, of uncertain origin and meaning, perhaps originally a nursery word or a short form of for example Bodobert, a Germanic personal name meaning ‘famous leader’. It was a hereditary personal name among the counts of Henneberg and Babenberg in East Franconia between the 9th and 14th centuries.English : from a Middle English continuation of an Old English personal name, Poppa, known only from occurrences in place names.
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Greek
Woman who nursed Zeus.
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Latin
Shewolf who nursed Romulus and Remus.
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English (mainly East Anglia)
English (mainly East Anglia) : nickname for a pious and demure man, or an occupational name for someone who worked at a convent, from Middle English nunn ‘nun’ (Old English nunne, from Latin nonna, originally a respectful term of address for an elderly woman. The Latin word probably originated as a nursery term).German : from an Old High German personal name Nunno, said to be a nursery word.
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Norse
A giant cow that nursed Ymir.
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Celtic
Mythical nursemaid.
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English, Scottish, and Irish
English, Scottish, and Irish : regional name for someone who had migrated from the North (i.e. further north in England, or from Scotland or Scandinavia), from Old French nor(r)eis ‘northerner’.English, Scottish, and Irish : topographic name for someone who lived in a house on the north side of a settlement or estate, from Middle English north ‘north’ + hous ‘house’.English, Scottish, and Irish : occupational name for a wet-nurse or foster mother, from Old French nurice, norrice (Latin nutrix, genitive nutricis).
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Greek
Woman who nursed Zeus.
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Latin
The shewolf who nursed Remus and Romulus.
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English
English : nickname from Middle English pope (derived via Old English from Late Latin papa ‘bishop’, ‘pope’, from Greek pappas ‘father’, in origin a nursery word.) In the early Christian Church, the Latin term was at first used as a title of respect for male clergy of every rank, but in the Western Church it gradually came to be restricted to bishops, and then only to the bishop of Rome; in the Eastern Church it continued to be used of all priests (see Popov, Papas). The nickname would have been used for a vain or pompous man, or for someone who had played the part of the pope in a pageant or play. The surname is also present in Ireland and Scotland.North German : variant of Poppe.Nathaniel Pope, a “marriner†from London and Bristol, England, patented a property on Northern Neck, VA, in 1651 that later became known as “The Cliftsâ€.
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English, Scottish, and Irish
English, Scottish, and Irish : variant of Norris 3.
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Greek
Nurse of Odysseus.
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Shakespearean
Pericles, Prince of Tyre' Nurse to Marina.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the Old English personal name TÄta, possibly a short form of various compound names with the obscure first element tÄt, or else a nursery formation. This surname is common and widespread in Britain; the chief area of concentration is northeastern England, followed by northern Ireland.
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Biblical
Integrity, truth, a nurse.
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Boy/Male
British, English
From the Fortress
Boy/Male
Arabic
Duration; Endurance
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Beautiful
Boy/Male
Sikh
One minded, Absorbed in meditation of one, One pointed
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Hebrew American
God's able-bodied one.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Traditional
Eternal Fame
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Hindu
Collected
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Celtic, German
Sweet; Pleasant; Of the Nobility; Noble; Diminutive of Adeline and Adela
Female
Celtic
, victory.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Agent, Representative, Lawyer
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v. t.
To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources.
n.
Either one of the nurse sharks.
n.
An early or simple larval stage of trematode worms and some other invertebrates, which is capable or reproducing other germs by asexual generation; a nurse; a redia.
n.
That which is nursed.
v. i.
To nurse; to suck.
n.
One who cultivates or keeps a nursery, or place for rearing trees, etc.
n.
That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen.
n.
A place where roses are cultivated; a nursery of roses. See Rosary, 1.
pl.
of Nursery
pl.
of Nurseryman
v. i.
To remain awake with any one as nurse or attendant; to attend on the sick during the night; as, to watch with a man in a fever.
n.
A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat.
v. t.
To rear, or bring up; to nurse.
n.
One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.
v. t.
A young child or animal nursed at the breast.
imp. & p. p.
of Nurse
v. t.
To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does.
n.
One who nurses; a nurse; one who cherishes or encourages growth.