Nursemaid

Definition: Nursemaid

Nursemaid

Noun

1. A woman who is the custodian of children.

Date "nursemaid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references)

Synonyms: Nursemaid

Synonyms: nanny (n), nurse (n). (additional references)

A nursemaid is a girl or woman hired by an individual family to take care of the child or children of that family. In recent years people in this employ have frequently been called "nannies."

Everything that a mother ordinarily might do, and especially the more onerous tasks, could be turned over to a nursemaid. In a household wealthy enough to employ a nursemaid, and perhaps other servants, the mother would not likely be the one to wash diapers and tidy up the nursery. Feeding very young children and supervising somewhat older children at mealtime, seeing that the children were dressed in clean and otherwise appropriate clothing, watching over the children as they played outside, and other such tasks could be left to a nursemaid while the lady of the house concerned herself with more important affairs. By reason of her close involvement in most if not all of the daily affairs of the children, including maintaining proper standards of behavior, the nursemaid might easily establish the close kind of a relationship with the children that a mother would herself ordinarily form. In cases where the lady of the household had died, a nursemaid might become even more fully a surrogate mother.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Servant	Maid, maidservant; handmaid; confidente, lady's maid, abigail, soubrette; amah, biddy, nurse, bonne, ayah; nursemaid, nursery maid, house maid, parlor maid, waiting maid, chamber maid, kitchen maid, scullery maid; femme de chambre, femme fille; camarista; chef de cuisine,cordon bleu, cook, scullion, Cinderella; potwalloper; maid of all work, servant of all work; laundress, bedmaker; journeyman, charwoman; (worker); bearer, chokra, gyp, hamal, scout.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Nursemaid

English words defined with "nursemaid": ayah ♦ mammy. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Nursemaid Who Disappeared (1939)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	-- And there's no overtime for the nursemaid.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Sylvie and Bruno	Carroll, Lewis	At last I turned to the nursemaid.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Nursemaid" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nursemaid" is used about 60 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	60	43,597

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "nursemaid": maid-of-all-work-cum-nursemaid, policeman-cum-nursemaid.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "nursemaid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kujdestare fëmijësh (governess, sitter, sitter in). (various references)

Arabic		‏مربية أطفال (baby sitter), ‏مربية (nanny), ‏حاضنة (nurse, sitting). (various references)

Bulgarian		бавачка (amah, dry nurse, nanny, nurse, nurserymaid). (various references)

Czech		chùva (child minder, dry nurse, nanny, nurse, nurse-maid), bona (nurse-maid). (various references)

Farsi		دخترپرستار, دایه (Foster, Nurse). (various references)

French		nurse, gouvernante, bonne d'enfants. (various references)

German		kindermädchen (nannies, nanny, nurse, nursemaids, nursery nurse, nurses). (various references)

Greek		νταντά (nanny). (various references)

Hebrew		מטפלת (nanny). (various references)

Hungarian		pesztra (amah), gyermeklány (nursery governess), dada (amah, nanny). (various references)

Indonesian		pengasuh (nurse). (various references)

Italian		bambinaia (babysitter, nanny, nurse). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		子守 (babysitter). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�"もり (babysitter), もり (baby-sitting, forest, harpoon, helping, lance, leak, leakage, serving). (various references)

Manx		boandyr (nanny, nurse). (various references)

Pig Latin		ursemaidnay

Portuguese		lactente (baby, breast-fed child, breast-fed infant, infant, nurture, suckling). (various references)

Russian		няня (amah, baby sitter, baby tender, dry nurse, nanny, nurse, nurserymaid). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		dadilja (au pair, dry nurse, nanny). (various references)

Spanish		niñera (baby sitter, babysitter, babysitters, childminder, dry nurse, nanny, nurse), chacha (daily, maid, maidservant, nanny), ñaña (elder sister). (various references)

Swedish		barnflicka (nurserymaid). (various references)

Thai		ผู้หญิงที่เลี้ยง�"ูเ�"็ก. (various references)

Turkish		dadı (dry nurse, duenna, governess, nanny, nurse), bebek bakıcısı (baby farmer, baby sitter), bakıcı (attendant, caretaker, care-taker, companion, companionway, dry nurse, keeper, nurse, tender, watcher). (various references)

Ukranian		нянька (nourice, nurse, tender), помічниця няні. (various references)

Vietnamese		chị bảo mẫu (nurserymaid), cô giữ trẻ (bonne, nurserymaid). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "nursemaid": nursemaids. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: muraenids.
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-m-n-r-s-u"
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	-3 letters: adieus.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-m-n-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: nursemaids, submarined, unmarrieds.
	+2 letters: admeasuring, adventurism, gourmandise, minaudieres, semidiurnal.
	+3 letters: adventurisms, barramundies, drumbeatings, gourmandises, gourmandizes, malnourished, masquerading, misadventure, quadrenniums.
	+4 letters: circumstanced, diathermanous, documentaries, documentarist, misadventures, misunderstand, multistranded, neuraminidase, underemphasis, underestimate.
	+5 letters: bildungsromane, diamondiferous, discouragement, documentarians, documentarists, misunderstands, neuraminidases, ultramodernist, underemphasize, underestimated, underestimates.
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