medicare

English Online Dictionary. What means medicare‎? What does medicare mean?

English

Noun

medicare (uncountable)

1. (Canada) The Canadian public health insurance system.

Related terms

• denticare
• pharmacare

Anagrams

• ceramide

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medicāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me.diˈka.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: me‧di‧cà‧re

Verb

medicàre (first-person singular present mèdico, first-person singular past historic medicài, past participle medicàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

1. to dress (a wound)
2. to treat (an injured patient)
3. (agriculture) to treat (the soil) with disinfectants or preservatives
4. (winemaking) to chemically treat (wine) (to improve its quality and reduce impurities)
5. (figurative) to soothe, to heal (psychic wounds, etc.)
6. (rare) to correct (a defect)
7. (archaic) to heal (a patient)

Conjugation

Related terms

• medicabile
• medicarsi
• medicazione
• medico

Anagrams

• decimare, decimerà

Latin

Verb

medicāre

1. inflection of medicō:
   1. present active infinitive
   2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

Spanish

Verb

medicare

1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of medicar