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wet nurse

wet nurse noun: a woman hired to suckle and care for another woman's child.

Noun

wet nurse (plural wet nurses)

  1. A woman hired to suckle and care for another woman's child.
  2. (broadly, figuratively) Someone who treats someone else with excessive care.

Verb

wet nurse (third-person singular simple present wet nurses, present participle wet nursing, simple past and past participle wet nursed)

  1. (transitive) To act as a wet nurse (in either sense).

wet nurse meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

wet nurse in Hindi

woman hired to suckle another woman's child
धाय dhāy, दाई dāī, धाय माँ dhāy mā̃

wet nurse in Tamil

woman hired to suckle another woman's child
தாய்ச்சி tāycci

wet nurse in Urdu

woman hired to suckle another woman's child
دایَہ dāya, دائِی dāī

wet nurse in Kannada

wet nurse, foster mother, nurse, mother
ಧಾತ್ರಿ dhātri
More languagesFewer languages
wet nurse in Gujarati
ધાવ dhāv
wet nurse in Odia
ଧାଈ dhāi, ଧାତ୍ରୀ dhātri
wet nurse in Sanskrit
धात्री dhātrī
wet nurse in Assamese
ধাই dhai, ধাত্ৰী dhatri
wet nurse in Tagalog
sisiwa, mamay
wet nurse in Arabic
ظِئْر ẓiʔr, دَايَة dāya
wet nurse in Malay
ibu susuan
wet nurse in Thai
แม่นม mɛ̂ɛ-nom
wet nurse in Vietnamese
vú nuôi, nhũ mẫu

Forms of wet nurse

Noun
pluralwet nurses
alternative formwet-nurse
alternative formwetnurse
Verb
third-person singular presentwet nurses
present participlewet nursing
past participlewet nursed
pastwet nursed

Questions about wet nurse

What does wet nurse mean?
Wet nurse means a woman hired to suckle and care for another woman's child.
What is wet nurse in Hindi?
Wet nurse in Hindi is धाय (dhāy), दाई (dāī), धाय माँ (dhāy mā̃). See Wet nurse meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is wet nurse?
Wet nurse can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of wet nurse?
The plural of wet nurse is wet nurses.

Words near wet nurse in the dictionary

  1. wet mounts
  2. wet my lips
  3. wet nelly
  4. wet noodle
  5. wet noodles
  6. wet nurse
  7. wet nursed
  8. wet nurses
  9. wet nursing
  10. wet one's beak
  11. wet one's clay

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wet nurse (page history and authors); ಧಾತ್ರಿ (Kannada) (page history and authors); ધાવ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ଧାଈ (Odia) (page history and authors); ধাই (Assamese) (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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