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Definition: Dry Nurse |
Dry NurseNoun1. A nurse who cares for but does not suckle an infant. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Aid | Cradle, nourish; nurture, nurse, dry nurse, suckle, put out to nurse; manure, cultivate, force; foster, cherish, foment; feed the flame, fan the flame. |
Teacher | Noun: teacher, trainer, instructor, institutor, master, tutor, director, Corypheus, dry nurse, coach, grinder, crammer, don; governor, bear leader; governess, duenna; disciplinarian. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "dry nurse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | бавя (delay, loiter, nurse), бавачка (amah, nanny, nurse, nursemaid, nurserymaid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | chùva (child minder, nanny, nurse, nursemaid, nurse-maid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szárazdajka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | trog er voteil, boandyr shiast. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ydray ursenay guvernantã (governess). (various references) нянчить (dandle, nurse, nursed), няня (amah, baby sitter, baby tender, nanny, nurse, nursemaid, nurserymaid). (various references) dojiti (breast-feed, nurse, suckle), dadilja (au pair, nanny, nursemaid). (various references) niñera (baby sitter, babysitter, babysitters, childminder, nanny, nurse, nursemaid), enfermera (nurse). (various references) barnsköterska (nanny, nurse). (various references) พี่เลี้ยงเ"็ก (baby-minder, babysitter, baby-sitter, governess, nan, nanny). (various references) dadı (duenna, governess, nanny, nurse, nursemaid), emzirmeyen bebek bakıcısı, emzirmeden bebek bakmak, bakıcı (attendant, caretaker, care-taker, companion, companionway, keeper, nurse, nursemaid, tender, watcher), analık etmek. (various references) няня (nanny, nurse, nurserymaid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-n-r-r-s-u-y" | |
-1 letter: nursery. | |
-2 letters: dryers, nursed, nurser, reruns, senryu, sunder, sundry, surrey. | |
-3 letters: derry, druse, dryer, dunes, dures, durns, durrs, dyers, dynes, nerds, nerdy, nuder, nudes, nurds, nurse, redry, rends, rerun, ruder, ruers, runes, rynds, serry, surer, syren, under. | |
-4 letters: dens, deny, deys, drys, dues, dune, duns, dure, durn, durr, dyer, dyes, dyne, ends, erns, errs. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-n-r-r-s-u-y" | |
+2 letters: understory. | |
+4 letters: horrendously, unreservedly. | |
+5 letters: interindustry. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Anagrams 4. Bibliography |
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