[
  {
    "word": "nurse",
    "phonetic": "/n\u025c\u02d0s/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/n\u025c\u02d0s/",
        "audio": ""
      },
      {
        "text": "/n\u025ds/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/nurse-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1749910",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "A wet nurse.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people\u2019s young.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "They hired a nurse to care for their young boy."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A person trained to provide care for the sick.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The nurse made her rounds through the hospital ward."
          },
          {
            "definition": "One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Eton College has been called \"the chief nurse of England's statesmen\"."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A shrub or tree that protects a young plant.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A nurse shark.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "She believes that nursing her baby will make him strong and healthy."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "She nursed him back to health."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To treat kindly and with extra care",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "She nursed the rosebush and that season it bloomed."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To manage with care and economy",
            "synonyms": [
              "husband"
            ],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To drink slowly",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To foster, to nourish",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To hold closely to one's chest",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Would you like to nurse the puppy?"
          },
          {
            "definition": "To strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "sip",
          "husband"
        ],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nurse"
    ]
  }
]