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say it: MAHYN-dur
minder is a noun meaning "someone (usually in totalitarian countries) who is assigned to watch over foreign visitors". It is pronounced /ˈmaɪndɚ/ — MAHYN-dur. It carries 2 recorded senses.
someone (usually in totalitarian countries) who is assigned to watch over foreign visitors
“I turned around and there, a few hundred feet away, was our government minder, Li Wong Su, huffing and puffing toward us”
a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babys' parents are working
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for minder come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.