Dutch English Dictionary

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verpleegster in English:

1. nurse nurse


Polish nurses find employment in England.
I'm a nurse.
I learned that woman I thought was a nurse is, in fact, a doctor.
You have to take all this medicine to get better, said the nurse.
A nurse brought me some bread and coffee, but the bread was stale and the coffee tasted of soap.
Later, the nurse told me she had done her best to make me well.
A typical nurse will do such things as helping with a urinal bottle, and shaving in preparation for surgery!
Bill was sent to live with his grandparents while his mother studied to become a nurse.
As a girl, Elisa loved to play nurse with her dolls.
I collected my urine sample in a small, plastic cup and gave it to the nurse.
Thirty years ago I met my wife in hospital in Wrocław. She was a nurse at the pediatric ward.
I still maintain contact with the nurse who assisted me in labour.
"This 32-year-old Romanian nurse had gone off to Italy in search of a better job. "
Our granddad is surrounded by nurses, who are like guardian angels.
After his long stay in hospital, his wife nursed him back to health at home.

2. maid maid


He has a maid.
Tom's acknowledgement that he stole the ring cleared the maid of suspicion.
I had a part-time job as a hotel maid, but I didn't like it very much.
Nowadays few people can afford to employ a maid.
I'm a stupid old maid in my thirties.
My maid waxes my house once a week.
The love of a young maiden is a poem. The love of an old maid is philosophy.
A base service performed for a person of very high degree may become a very honorific office; as for instance the office of a Maid of Honor or of a Lady in Waiting to the Queen, or the King's Master of the Horse or his Keeper of the Hounds.
In the play she doubled the parts of a maid and shop girl.
A saint's maid quotes Latin.
The Miller family had a cook, a gardener and two maids.
... that married the meter maid, or the one who...
The chambermaid changes towels every day.
Definition a maid is a woman who works for a hotel or for a private family, doing jobs like cleaning and washing clothes
In the story, the beautiful maid married the brave knight.