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PRONUNCIATION OF NURSING FATHER

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NURSING FATHER

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Nursing father is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES NURSING FATHER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Nursing father

A nursing father typically refers to the male parent of an infant which provides primary care for the infant. This terminology can refer to many different types of species. The concept of a "nursing father" for humans is mostly an emerging phenomenon of the 21st century. It is considered a consequence of the changing perceptions of the role of family and women in the Western world. A nursing father may take on the roles which have been traditionally or stereotypically assigned to women. This includes feeding and bathing the infant, and providing all the other necessities for the infant.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NURSING FATHER

nursery rhyme
nursery school
nursery slope
nursery slopes
nursery stakes
nurserymaid
nurseryman
nurserymen
nursing
nursing auxiliary
nursing bottle
nursing bra
nursing home
nursing mother
nursing officer
nursing orderly
nursing sister
nursing studies
nursle
nursling

WORDS THAT END LIKE NURSING FATHER

all-weather
birds of a feather
breather
father
feather
gather
godfather
grandfather
great-grandfather
heather
Holy Father
lather
leather
other
Our Father
patent leather
rather
stepfather
sunbather
weather
white leather

Synonyms and antonyms of nursing father in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «nursing father» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NURSING FATHER

Find out the translation of nursing father to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of nursing father from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «nursing father» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

养育之父
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

padre de enfermería
570 millions of speakers

English

nursing father
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नर्सिंग पिता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الأب التمريض
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

отец кормящих
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pai de enfermagem
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নার্সিং পিতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

père de soins infirmiers
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bapa kejururawatan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Pflegevater
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

看護父
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

간호 아버지
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bapak nursing
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

điều dưỡng cha
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நர்சிங் தந்தை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नर्सिंग वडील
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Hemşirelik babası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

padre di cura
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ojciec farmacja
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

батько годуючих
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tatăl asistenta medicala
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

νοσηλευτικό πατέρας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verpleging vader
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

omvårdnad far
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sykepleie far
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of nursing father

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NURSING FATHER»

The term «nursing father» is normally little used and occupies the 140.681 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NURSING FATHER» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «nursing father» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «nursing father» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about nursing father

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NURSING FATHER»

Discover the use of nursing father in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to nursing father and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Nursing Fathers: American Colonists' Conception of English ...
In this insightful new book on the subject, Benjamin Price argues that for most of the eighteenth century North American colonists viewed themselves as Englishmen, loyal to the monarchy and to the English constitution as recast by the ...
Benjamin Lewis Price, 1999
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The Cradle King: The Life of James VI and I, the First ...
I N HIS WRITINGS , speeches, lettersand tabletalk, James returned again and again to two images of himself as King: the physician and the nutritius, the nursing father. These speak volumes for James's ideas about kingship. Based on a line ...
‎2014
3
Parenting in England 1760-1830: Emotion, Identity, and ...
According to Buncle: 'The parent, like the king, must be a nursing father, a rational humane sovereign, and so long all service and obedience are due. But if, like the prince, he becomes a tyrant, . .. [this] give[s] her a right to change her situation, ...
Joanne Bailey, 2012
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Nation and Nurture in Seventeenth-Century English Literature
6 As these examples suggest, the figure of the nursing father circulated in early modern England through a range of genres: political speeches, sermons, letters, and religious verse, among others. In this chapter, I am primarily interested in ...
Rachel Trubowitz, 2012
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The Making of a Leader
What Paul gave to these Christians can be seen in the feelings expressed by a mother who nurses her own child. This is the true picture of a "nursing father," in the masculine sense, as it relates not only to the apostle Paul, but also to every ...
Frank Damazio, 1988
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A Prophet Like Moses: Prophecy, Law, and Israelite Religion
KJV and ASV clarify that the ןמא is masculine—thus, “nursing-father”—though what this means is hardly clear in light of their strict etymological construal of קני as “sucking child.”55 For its part, NRSV sheds “nursing-father” for “nurse,” even as it ...
Jeffrey Stackert, 2014
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Forgotten Features of the Founding: The Recovery of ...
Calvin's or James I's or Rutherford's concept of the nursing father, sword in hand, dispatching the heretics became instantly obsolete in 1689 and was succeeded in both England and America by the idea that the nursing father should become ...
James H. Hutson, 2003
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Suckling at My Mother's Breasts: The Image of a Nursing God ...
48 The motivation for this story, which is not explicitly stated in the text, seems to be that esther 2:7 reads, “and he [Mordekhai] was a nursing father (omen) to hadassah.” The curious term omen is also applied to Moses in numbers 11:12, ...
Ellen Davina Haskell, 2012
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The British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review, and ...
... thus be the greatest support to the crown, and the king a true nursing father to the Church, the conversation is made to turn upon this word. " ' But,' said one, ' can the king be a nursing father to the Church, and yet have no authority over her .
‎1837
10
The British Critic and Quarterly Theological Review
... thus be the greatest support to the crown, and the king a true nursing father to the Church, the conversation is made to turn upon this word. " ' But,' said one, ' can the king be a nursing father to the Church, and yet have no authority over her .
‎1837

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NURSING FATHER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term nursing father is used in the context of the following news items.
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You Are Who God Says That You Are
Kings shall be your nursing father and queens your nursing mothers. They shall lick the dust from off thy feet. Listen, you are who God says that ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
2
Obama's Klairvoyant Prebuttal to Bibi
One main part of our purpose, besides introducing the concept of freedom and liberty to the world, is to be the nursing father to Israel. We must ... «People's Cube, Mar 15»
3
Syracuse football's Nate Kadah calls nursing father through cancer …
Syracuse football's Nate Kadah calls nursing father through cancer 'the hardest thing I ever had to do'. RonNate.jpg. Nate Kadah grew into a ... «The Post-Standard - syracuse.com, Sep 14»
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Actress Laide Bakare's Hubby Says “My Wife Sleeps Around; We …
In fact, there was a time she left our baby, Similoluwa with me for eight months in America in the name of career, I had become a nursing father. «Osun Defender, May 13»
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The Church of England could have a Catholic governor
There is no oddity for a Church in having a lay Supreme Governor, whether as a “nursing father” (see the “Dedication” in the A.V.), or even in ... «Catholic Herald Online, Jan 13»
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A Man Who Is Determined To Breastfeed
... which reads, “Carry them in your bosom, as a nursing father bears the sucking child”) implying that men breastfeeding was once common. «The Frisky, Sep 11»
7
The Picture
"In many paintings, the artists made sure that the daughter would look off to the side, so as not to see the face of her nursing father, out of ... «Ha'aretz, Sep 10»
8
Ash nursing father-in-law Amitabh
Family comes first, Ash has again proved it by being on the side of her ail father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan and by keeping a tab on his ... «Bollywood Mantra, Oct 08»

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