WET NURSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wet nurse mean? 

• WET NURSE (noun)
  The noun WET NURSE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: WET NURSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WET NURSE (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 ("wet nurse" is a kind of...):

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