babysitter
Syllables: ba·by·sit·terUK/ˈbeɪ̯biˌsɪtə//ˈbeɪ̯biˌsɪtɚ/
babysitter noun: a person who cares for one or more babies or children for a short period of time in place of their legal guardians.
Noun
babysitter (plural babysitters)
- 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
- 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
babysitter meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
babysitter in Hindi
- baby or child caretaker
- दाई dāī, बेबीसिटर bebīsiṭar, आया āyā
babysitter in Urdu
- baby or child caretaker
- بیبی سِٹَر bebī siṭar, دائِی dāī, آیا āyā
babysitter in Bengali
- baby or child caretaker
- বেবিসিটার bebiśiṭar, আয়া aẏa
babysitter in Telugu
- baby or child caretaker
- ఆయా āyā
More languagesFewer languages
- babysitter in Malayalam
- ആയ
- babysitter in Nepali
- बेबीसिटर
- babysitter in Tagalog
- yáya, tagá-alagà ng batà
- babysitter in Arabic
- حَاضِنَة ḥāḍina, مُرَبِّيَة murabbiya
- babysitter in Malay
- pengasuh bayi, pengasuh
- babysitter in Indonesian
- pramusiwi, pengasuh anak, pengasuh
- babysitter in Thai
- พี่เลี้ยง pîi-líiang
- babysitter in Vietnamese
- người giữ trẻ
- babysitter in Myanmar
- အာယား aya:, ကလေးထိန်း ka.le:htin:
Examples of babysitter in a sentence
- As the babysitter, Emma always acted as the mother whenever the kids demanded to play house.
- The couple canceled their night out when they got a bad vibe from the new babysitter.
- Were you a good boy for the babysitter?
Synonyms of babysitter
Forms of babysitter
| plural | babysitters |
|---|---|
| alternative form | baby-sitter |
| alternative form (rare) | baby sitter |
Origin of babysitter
From baby + sitter.
Words formed from babysitter
Questions about babysitter
- What does babysitter mean?
- Babysitter means a person who cares for one or more babies or children for a short period of time in place of their legal guardians.
- What is babysitter in Hindi?
- Babysitter in Hindi is दाई (dāī), बेबीसिटर (bebīsiṭar), आया (āyā). See Babysitter meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is babysitter?
- Babysitter is a noun.
- How do you pronounce babysitter?
- Babysitter is pronounced /ˈbeɪ̯biˌsɪtə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of babysitter?
- The plural of babysitter is babysitters.
Words near babysitter in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: babysitter (page history and authors); babysitter (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); babysitter (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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