NURSEMAID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nursemaid mean? 

• NURSEMAID (noun)
  The noun NURSEMAID has 1 sense:

1. a woman who is the custodian of children

  Familiarity information: NURSEMAID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NURSEMAID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman who is the custodian of children

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

nanny; nurse; nursemaid

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)

 Context examples 

If he doesn't, and some nursemaid goes a-walkin' orf with a soldier, leavin' of the hinfant in the perambulator—well, then I shouldn't be surprised if the census is one babby the less.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The fact is, after my conflict with and victory over Mrs. Reed, I was not disposed to care much for the nursemaid's transitory anger; and I was disposed to bask in her youthful lightness of heart.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)