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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 shampoo
  2. baby shampoos
  3. baby shower
  4. baby showers
  5. baby sister
  6. baby sitter
  7. baby sitters
  8. baby sitting
  9. baby sittings
  10. baby sling
  11. baby slings

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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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