wet nurse

1. 1.

   a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else

   Synonymswet-nursewetnurseamah

   Broadernanny

Questions about wet nurse

What does wet nurse mean?

wet nurse means "a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else".

What is another word for wet nurse?

Close synonyms include wet-nurse, wetnurse, amah. 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 wet nurse a common word?

wet nurse is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.