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Wet Nurse

nounid 159699·updated May 18, 2026
verified

a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else

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Classifications

Entity Type

Unknownauthoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
amah
alternatephrasing
Wet-NurseWetnurse
plural
Wet Nurses
possessive
Wet Nurse's
pluralpossessive
Wet Nurses'

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary1 senseview framework →
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a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else

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