amah

1. 1.

   a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else

   Synonymswet nursewet-nursewetnurse

   Broadernanny
2. 2.

   a female domestic

   Synonymsmaidmaidservanthousemaid

   Broaderdomestic

   Narrowerchambermaidhandmaidlady's maidparlormaid

Other forms of amah

plural

amahs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about amah

What does amah mean?

amah means "a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in amah?

amah has 2 syllables: a-mah. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for amah?

Close synonyms include wet nurse, wet-nurse, wetnurse, maid, maidservant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is amah a common word?

amah is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.