Matron vs. Nurse

Matronnoun

A mature or elderly woman.

Matronnoun

A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children.

Matronnoun

A woman of staid or motherly manners.

Matronnoun

A housekeeper, especially, a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public institution.

Matronnoun

A senior female nurse in an establishment, especially a hospital or school.

Matronnoun

(US) A female prison officer.

Matronnoun

A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners.

Matronnoun

A housekeeper; esp., a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public instution; a head nurse in a hospital; as, the matron of a school or hospital.

Matronnoun

a married woman (usually middle-aged with children) who is staid and dignified

Matronnoun

a wardress in a prison

Matronnoun

a woman in charge of nursing in a medical institution

Matron

Matron is the job title of a very senior or the chief nurse in several countries, including the United Kingdom, its former colonies, such as India, and also the Republic of Ireland. The chief nurse, in other words the person in charge of nursing in a hospital and the head of the nursing staff, is also known as the senior nursing officer, matron, nursing officer, or clinical nurse manager in UK English; the head nurse or director of nursing in US English, and the nursing superintendent or matron in Indian English, among other countries in the Commonwealth of Nations.In the United Kingdom, matrons today and Historically, matrons supervised the hospital as a whole but today, they are in-charge of supervising two or three wards.The chief nurse is a registered nurse who supervises the care of all the patients at a health care facility.

Nursenoun

(archaic) A wet nurse.

Nursenoun

A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young.

Nursenoun

A person trained to provide care for the sick.

Nursenoun

(figurative) One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters.

Nursenoun

(horticulture) A shrub or tree that protects a young plant.

Nursenoun

(nautical) A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.

Nursenoun

A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.

Nursenoun

A nurse shark.

Nurseverb

to breastfeed

Nurseverb

to care for the sick

Nurseverb

to treat kindly and with extra care

Nurseverb

to manage with care and economy

Nurseverb

to drink slowly

Nurseverb

to foster, to nourish

Nurseverb

to hold closely to one's chest

Nurseverb

to strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots

Nursenoun

One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm.

Nursenoun

One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like.

Nursenoun

A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place.

Nursenoun

A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariæ by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia.

Nurseverb

To nourish; to cherish; to foster

Nurseverb

To bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid condition; to foster; to cherish; - applied to plants, animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by, attention.

Nurseverb

To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources.

Nurseverb

To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does.

Nursenoun

one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician)

Nursenoun

a woman who is the custodian of children

Nurseverb

try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury;

Nurseverb

maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings);

Nurseverb

serve as a nurse; care for sick or handicapped people

Nurseverb

treat carefully;

Nurseverb

give suck to;