Usually means: Caregiver who breastfeeds another's baby.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word wet nurse:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. wet nurse: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wet-nurse, wet nurse: Merriam-Webster
  3. wet nurse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wet-nurse, wet nurse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wet-nurse, wet-nurse, wet nurse: Collins English Dictionary
  6. wet-nurse, wet nurse: Vocabulary.com
  7. wet-nurse, wet nurse: Wordnik
  8. wet-nurse, wet nurse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. wet-nurse, wet nurse: Wiktionary
  10. wet-nurse, wet nurse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. wet nurse: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. wet-nurse, wet nurse: Dictionary.com
  13. Wet-nurse, Wet nurse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Wet nurse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. wet-nurse, wet nurse: Rhymezone
  16. Wet nurse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. wet-nurse, wet nurse: FreeDictionary.org
  18. wet-nurse, wet nurse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. wet-nurse, wet nurse: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wet nurse: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wet-nurse, wet nurse: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. wet nurse: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. wet-nurse, wet nurse: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. WET NURSE, WET NURSE, WET NURSE: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wet nurse: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See wet_nurses as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (wet nurse)

noun:  A woman hired to suckle another woman's child.
noun:  (figuratively, by extension) Someone who treats someone else with excessive care.
verb:  (transitive) To act as a wet nurse (in either sense).

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