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WETNURSE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wetnurse mean?
• WETNURSE (noun)
The noun WETNURSE has 1 sense:
1. a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else
Familiarity information: WETNURSE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("wetnurse" is a kind of...):
nanny; nurse; nursemaid (a woman who is the custodian of children)
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