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baby-sitter

baby-sitter is the alternative spelling of babysitter.

Meaning of babysitter

Noun

babysitter (plural babysitters)

  1. A person who cares for one or more babies or children for a short period of time in place of their legal guardians.
    • My neighbor is sometimes a babysitter for other mothers’ children.
    Synonyms:
    childsitter, sitter
  2. (derogatory) A person who has to watch or attend to anything or anyone unnecessarily closely; a coddler or handholder.
    • He said he did not want to be on tenterhooks worrying about us and having to act as a babysitter for grown men.2005, Alan Ball, Playing Extra Time, page 158

Forms of baby-sitter

pluralbaby-sitters

Questions about baby-sitter

What is baby-sitter the alternative spelling of?
Baby-sitter is the alternative spelling of babysitter.

Words near baby-sitter in the dictionary

  1. baby-mothers
  2. baby-sat
  3. baby-sit
  4. baby-sits
  5. baby-sitted
  6. baby-sitter
  7. baby-sitters
  8. baby-sitting
  9. baby-sittings
  10. baby-snatcher
  11. baby-snatchers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: baby-sitter (page history and authors); babysitter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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