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nursemaid

nursemaid noun: a woman or girl employed to care for children.

Noun

nursemaid (plural nursemaids)

  1. A woman or girl employed to care for children.
    Synonyms:
    nanny, nurserymaid

Verb

nursemaid (third-person singular simple present nursemaids, present participle nursemaiding, simple past and past participle nursemaided)

  1. To tend to as a nursemaid.
  2. (colloquial) To care for or look after.
    • I don't believe I have to nursemaid these two rookies through their entire probationary period.
    • ‘Make the most of it,’ said Ford. ‘Because what I want you to do is to nursemaid that package out of the building.1992, Douglas Adams, chapter 14, in Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 120

nursemaid meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

nursemaid in Bengali

নার্সমেইড হিসেবে সেবা করা, যত্ন নেওয়া, দেখাশোনা করা

nursemaid in Malayalam

nurse, carer, caregiver
ആയ, പരിചാരിക, നഴ്സ്, ശുശ്രൂഷക, ആതുരശുശ്രുഷക, രോഗിയെ പരിചരിക്കുന്നവൾ

Synonyms of nursemaid

Forms of nursemaid

Noun
pluralnursemaids
Verb
third-person singular presentnursemaids
present participlenursemaiding
past participlenursemaided
pastnursemaided

Origin of nursemaid

From nurse + maid.

Questions about nursemaid

What does nursemaid mean?
Nursemaid means a woman or girl employed to care for children.
What is nursemaid in Bengali?
Nursemaid in Bengali is নার্সমেইড হিসেবে সেবা করা, যত্ন নেওয়া, দেখাশোনা করা. See Nursemaid meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is nursemaid?
Nursemaid can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of nursemaid?
The plural of nursemaid is nursemaids.

Words near nursemaid in the dictionary

  1. nurselets
  2. nurselike
  3. nurseling
  4. nurselings
  5. nursely
  6. nursemaid
  7. nursemaided
  8. nursemaiding
  9. nursemaids
  10. nurseman
  11. nursemen

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nursemaid (page history and authors); nursemaid (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nursemaid (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset 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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