wet nurse

wet nurse

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Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [wet nurs]
- /wɛt nɜrs/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [wet nurs]
- /wɛt nɜrs/

Definitions of wet nurse words

noun wet nurse woman hired to breast-feeds another's child 1
countable noun wet nurse In former times, a wet nurse was a woman who was paid to breast-feed another woman's baby. 0
noun wet nurse a woman hired to suckle the child of another 0
verb wet nurse to act as a wet nurse to (a child) 0
verb wet nurse to attend with great devotion 0
noun wet nurse a woman hired to suckle another's child 0

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Parts of speech for Wet nurse

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

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wet nurse popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 90% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.

Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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