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AMAH

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A female domestic

Synonyms:

amah; housemaid; maid; maidservant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("amah" is a kind of...):

domestic; domestic help; house servant (a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "amah"):

chambermaid; fille de chambre (a maid who is employed to clean and care for bedrooms (now primarily in hotels))

handmaid; handmaiden (a personal maid or female attendant)

lady's maid (a maid who is a lady's personal attendant)

parlormaid; parlourmaid (a maid in a private home whose duties are to care for the parlor and the table and to answer the door)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else

Synonyms:

amah; wet-nurse; wet nurse; wetnurse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("amah" is a kind of...):

nanny; nurse; nursemaid (a woman who is the custodian of children)

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