AMAH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amah mean? 

• AMAH (noun)
  The noun AMAH has 2 senses:

1. a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else

2. a female domestic

  Familiarity information: AMAH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMAH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

amah; wet-nurse; wet nurse; wetnurse

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

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

A female domestic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

amah; housemaid; maid; maidservant

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)