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nursing school

nursing school

18 2.5
A school where students learn to become nurses
  • noun
  • /ˈnɜrsɪŋ skuːl/
: escuela de enfermería
  • She talked about her experiences in nursing school, where she learned about patient care and medical procedures.
  • curricula taught in nursing school

And that is my goal is to start nursing school in January.

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Examples

  • Sarah's headed off to nursing school next month.

  • At 17, I ran away from home and joined the Army, which put me through nursing school.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • And that is my goal is to start nursing school in January.

  • And I want to say that she dropped out of nursing school when she married my dad.

  • If you go back to nursing school, we'll pay for it.

  • I really need this credit to get into nursing school.

  • I was in nursing school.

  • My husband is currently in nursing school, and we are really struggling because of our debt.

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  • So I enrolled in nursing school, and I decided to focus all of my energy into helping those less fortunate.

  • My oldest sister just got through three years of nursing school while working a part-time job.

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Synonyms

school of nursing
vsnursing school
3 2.8

A college where people train to care for sick people

is the alternative phrasing that reverses word order without changing meaning

How Advanced

university
3 1.0
nursing school
18 2.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

nursing + school

The meaning 'a school where students are trained to become nurses' is directly and compositionally built from 'nursing' (care of patients/field of study) + 'school' (educational institution). This is a straightforward noun–noun compound following common cross‑linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.

Etymology

The noun nursing school comes from the simple idea of a place where people learn to nurse, meaning 'to care for the sick'. These schools began next to hospitals so students could practise real care, so today nursing school means a school that trains people to become nurses.