care
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (5)cares, cared, caring
- feel concern or interest“I really care about my work”“I don't care”More general feel for, pity
- provide care for“The nurse was caring for the wounded”Synonyms: give careMore general help, assistMore specific attend, rear, mother, dry-nurse, nurse
- to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something“Do you care to try this dish?”“Would you like to come along to the movies?”“I wish I could go home now”Synonyms: wishlikeMore general desire, wantMore specific please
- be in charge of, act on, or dispose of“I can deal with this crew of workers”“This blender can't handle nuts”“She managed her parents' affairs after they got too old”Synonyms: managedealhandleMore general control, commandMore specific conduct, take care, administer, direct, organize, come to grips, coordinate, dispose of, touch, mismanage +3 more
- be concerned with“I worry about my grades”Synonyms: worryMore general mindMore specific brood, dwell
Noun (6)cares
- the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something“no medical care was required”“the old car needs constant attention”Synonyms: attentionaidtendingType of workKinds treatment, incubation, nursing, first aid, maternalism, skin care, personal care, tree surgery, pedicure, babysitting +10 more
- judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger“he exercised caution in opening the door”“he handled the vase with care”Synonyms: cautionprecautionforethoughtType of judiciousness
- an anxious feeling“care had aged him”“they hushed it up out of fear of public reaction”Synonyms: concernfearType of anxiety
- a cause for feeling concern“his major care was the illness of his wife”Type of predicament, quandary
- attention and management implying responsibility for safety“he is in the care of a bodyguard”Synonyms: chargetutelageguardianshipType of protectionKinds providence, foster care, great care, slight care, due care
- activity involved in maintaining something in good working order“he wrote the manual on car care”Synonyms: maintenanceupkeepType of repair, fixKinds scheduled maintenance, car care, camera care, overhaul, steam fitting, pump priming
What does it mean? Question 1 of today’s quiz
Translations
Noun close attention, concern or responsibility
Verb to be concerned about
- Spanish
- importar
- German
- sich sorgen
- Italian
- interessarsi
- Turkish
- umursamak
- Russian
- беспоко́иться bespokóitʹsja
- Chinese
- 关心 guānxīn
- Japanese
- 気にする ki-ni suru
- Dutch
- geven
- Swedish
- bry sig
- Korean
- 상관하다 sanggwanhada
Verb to look after
- Spanish
- cuidar
- French
- soigner
- German
- sich kümmern
- Italian
- curare
- Portuguese
- cuidar
- Turkish
- ilgilenmek
- Russian
- уха́живать uxáživatʹ
- Japanese
- 世話をする sewa-o suru
- Dutch
- zorgen voor
- Polish
- dbać
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: AS. caru, cearu; akin to OS. kara sorrow, Goth. kara, OHG chara, lament, and perh. to Gr. γῆρυς voice. Not akin to cure. Cf. Chary.
1. A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.— William Shakespeare
2. Charge, oversight, or management, implying responsibility for safety and prosperity.
The care of all the churches.— 2 Cor. xi. 28.
Him thy care must be to find.— John Milton
Perplexed with a thousand cares.— William Shakespeare
3. Attention or heed; caution; regard; heedfulness; watchfulness; as, take care; have a care.
I thank thee for thy care and honest pains.— William Shakespeare
4. The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
Right sorrowfully mourning her bereaved cares.— Edmund Spenser
Synonyms: Anxiety; solicitude; concern; caution; regard; management; direction; oversight. — Care, Anxiety, Solicitude, Concern. These words express mental pain in different degress. Care belongs primarily to the intellect, and becomes painful from overburdened thought. Anxiety denotes a state of distressing uneasiness fron the dread of evil. Solicitude expresses the same feeling in a diminished degree. Concern is opposed to indifference, and implies exercise of anxious thought more or less intense. We are careful about the means, solicitous and anxious about the end; we are solicitous to obtain a good, anxious to avoid an evil.
Origin: AS. cearian. See Care, noun
To be anxious or solicitous; to be concerned; to have regard or interest; — sometimes followed by an objective of measure.
I would not care a pin, if the other three were in.— William Shakespeare
Master, carest thou not that we perish?— Mark. iv. 38.
To care for. (a) To have under watchful attention; to take care of. (b) To have regard or affection for; to like or love.
He cared not for the affection of the house.— Alfred Tennyson
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54