how to pronounce nurse

/nɜːs/

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nurse is pronounced in one syllable

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ɜː

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An example use of nurse in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… easy thing to assess a nurse such the …”

meaning of nurse

A nurse is a person who is trained to provide health care.

nurse frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word nurse occurs in english on average 34 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics nurse can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that nurse can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) people, society, and culture;