Nightingale

nightingale English + (disambiguation)#People thumb|170px|The Lady with the Lamp or Florence Nightingale at Scutari, 1854. Proper noun ~ s en. en 1960 March N. Caplan The Railway Member of Parliament Railway Magazine 208 After the death of his [Verney's] first wife, he proposed to Florence Nightingale but she refused him. Later he married her sister, and for many years Claydon was Miss Nightingale's second home. en hamlet co/Wheatland County p/Alberta c/Canada, named after Florence Nightingale. Noun en attributive A temporary facility built at short notice during the COVID-19 pandemic, or by extension any other emergency. en https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/03/advice-schools-covid-infection-pupils-classrooms-test-and-trace School safety is the latest outsourcing scandal. I feel a creeping despair George Monbiot 2020-11-03 The Guardian In June, the National Education Union wrote to the government, asking it to set up “Nightingale schools”: classrooms in churches, libraries and leisure centres. https://web.archive.org/web/20261021083444/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/03/advice-schools-covid-infection-pupils-classrooms-test-and-trace 21 October 2026 en https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/hospital-admissions-double-virus-wave-reaches-peak-sage-815206 Hospital admissions ‘could double’ before virus wave reaches peak, Sage member warns 2021-01-01 Jane Merrick This scenario would put the NHS under extreme pressure and lead to more non-Covid patients being turned away and use of all available space in Nightingales. The i Paper https://web.archive.org/web/20221129135502/https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/hospital-admissions-double-virus-wave-reaches-peak-sage-815206 29 November 2022 en https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3kg1vpqddo Farage proposes sending prisoners to overseas jails 2025-07-21 Kate Whannel BBC News In order to create more prison spaces, Farage said his party would spend £5bn to build and operate five new low-security Nightingale prisons on Ministry of Defence land, creating 12,400 spaces for "lower category offenders". https://web.archive.org/web/20251208155331/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3kg1vpqddo 8 December 2025 en https://www.channel4.com/news/inside-nhs-hospital-at-96-capacity-as-new-report-warns-of-overcrowding-amid-flu-admissions-rise The last place he showed me was an empty ward, once used as a Nightingale ward for Covid. Inside NHS hospital at 96% capacity as new report warns of ‘overcrowding’ amid flu admissions rise 2026-01-08 Channel 4 News Ayshah Till https://web.archive.org/web/20260730053543/https://www.channel4.com/news/inside-nhs-hospital-at-96-capacity-as-new-report-warns-of-overcrowding-amid-flu-admissions-rise 30 July 2026 Derived terms en Florence Nightingale, en Nightingale ward, en Nightingale court — derived from the surname of Florence Nightingale en Swedish Nightingale Statistics According to the 2010 United States Census, Nightingale is the 7255th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4596 individuals. Nightingale is most common among White (89.06%) individuals. Anagrams en aegghiilnnt alightening