wetnurse

Questions about wetnurse

What does wetnurse mean?

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

How many syllables are in wetnurse?

wetnurse has 2 syllables and divides as wet-nurse under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for wetnurse?

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

wetnurse 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.