We found 30 dictionaries that define the word
wet nurse:
General (21 matching dictionaries)
- wet nurse: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
- wet-nurse, wet nurse: Merriam-Webster
- wet nurse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
- wet-nurse, wet nurse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
- wet-nurse, wet-nurse, wet nurse: Collins English Dictionary
- wet-nurse, wet nurse: Vocabulary.com
- wet-nurse, wet nurse: Wordnik
- wet-nurse, wet nurse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
- wet-nurse, wet nurse: Wiktionary
- wet-nurse, wet nurse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
- wet nurse: Infoplease Dictionary
- wet-nurse, wet nurse: Dictionary.com
- Wet-nurse, Wet nurse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
- Wet nurse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
- wet-nurse, wet nurse: Rhymezone
- Wet nurse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
- wet-nurse, wet nurse: FreeDictionary.org
- wet-nurse, wet nurse: Mnemonic Dictionary
- wet-nurse, wet nurse: TheFreeDictionary.com
Business (1 matching dictionary)
- wet nurse: Legal dictionary
Computing (1 matching dictionary)
- wet-nurse, wet nurse: Encyclopedia
Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
- wet nurse: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
- Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
- online medical dictionary (No longer online)
- wet-nurse, wet nurse: Medical dictionary
Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
- Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
- WET NURSE, WET NURSE, WET NURSE: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
Slang (1 matching dictionary)
- 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).
amah,
wet-nurse,
wetnurse,
nurse,
breastfeeder,
dry-nurse,
nursling,
nanny,
nursemaid,
nurserymaid,
more...
caretaker,
latchkey,
nannyish,
frow,
boy,
woman,
meare,
hubby,
toady,
granny,
girlie
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