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NURSEMAID

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman who is the custodian of children

Synonyms:

nanny; nurse; nursemaid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

keeper (someone in charge of other people)

adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))

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

dry nurse (a nurse who cares for but does not suckle an infant)

mammy (an offensive term for a Black nursemaid in the southern U.S.)

amah; wet-nurse; wet nurse; wetnurse (a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else)

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