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How to pronounce nursemaid in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms nanny, nurse
Type of adult female, keeper, woman
Has types wetnurse, mammy, wet-nurse, wet nurse, amah, dry nurse

Examples of nursemaid

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Nephthys also serves as the nursemaid and watchful guardian of the infant Horus.
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Rose and their black nursemaid, Ozzie, were Williams'only companions as a child.
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They suspected Elizabeth Gough, Saville's 22-year-old nursemaid, as the murderer.
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Bang was mistakenly apprenticed to a pirate band as a child by his deaf nursemaid.
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Orphaned as a child, she was taken in as a nursemaid by a family in Naples.
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The local inquisitor had learned that the boy was secretly baptised by his nursemaid.
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His mother, reduced to a short-order cook and nursemaid, lives in a trailer in the garden.
From the guardian.co.uk
The narrator of the piece is a nursemaid, who is putting the baby in her care to sleep.
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I was their initiator and, later, typist, editor and nursemaid.
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More examples
  • Nanny: a woman who is the custodian of children
  • A nursemaid or nursery maid, is mostly a historical term of employment for a female servant in an elite household. In the 21st century, the position is largely defunct, owing to the relatively small number of households who maintain large staffs with the traditional hierarchy.
  • A woman employed to take care of children
  • Russian term for the security service officer who accompanies delegations to other countries to prevent anyone from defecting.