Thesaurus results for NURSEMAID

nursemaid

noun

ˈnərs-ˌmād

Definition of nursemaid

as in nurse

a person employed to care for a young child or children sent the children to their nursemaid

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Recent Examples of nursemaid Opposite Assante and Scacchi, who plays Odysseus’ wife, Penelope, Hollywood royalty Isabella Rossellini and Geraldine Chaplin deliver scene-stealing performances as Athena and the nursemaid Eurycleia. — Elaina Patton, IndieWire, 24 July 2026 Taking with her only Fanny and a nursemaid, Wollstonecraft travelled to Norway, Sweden and Denmark, and during her travels, wrote dozens of letters to Imlay in which the infant Fanny might occasionally be glimpsed. — Literary Hub, 5 June 2026 Anna has come East to meet her estranged father, the Swedish bargeman Chris (Brian d’Arcy James), who believes Anna’s been earning money as a nursemaid. — Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2025 Providing relief and contrast are the sisters, daughters, mothers, wives, mistresses, and nursemaids, all of whom also have views on ideal social order. — Adam Begley, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2025 Second of all, these people here, everybody is like a nursemaid so to speak. — Sean Neumann, People.com, 16 Jan. 2025

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Noun

Clancy, a labor and delivery nurse, gives birth to her third child.

— Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2026
Youth, teachers and parents in four towns complained of unsanitary school conditions and chronic staff shortages including of nurses and social workers.

— Reuters, NBC news, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of nurse

Noun

While Denny is out trick or treating on Halloween with his nanny Cecilia (Adriana Paz, Emilia Pérez), Mark and Abigail’s son goes missing.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026
Krems said the nanny, Chun-May Lee, who allegedly abused the children, was quickly fired.

— Austin Turner, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026

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