"babysit" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [Danish]

Head templates: {{head|da|verb form}} babysit
  1. imperative of babysitte Tags: form-of, imperative Form of: babysitte
    Sense id: en-babysit-da-verb-REfYLjw6 Categories (other): Danish entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈbeɪ.bi.sɪt/ Audio: en-us-babysit.ogg Forms: babysits [present, singular, third-person], babysitting [participle, present], babysat [participle, past], babysat [past]
Etymology: Back-formation from babysitter. Etymology templates: {{back-form|en|babysitter}} Back-formation from babysitter Head templates: {{en-verb|babysits|babysitting|babysat}} babysit (third-person singular simple present babysits, present participle babysitting, simple past and past participle babysat)
  1. (transitive, intransitive) To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money. Tags: intransitive, transitive Translations (to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money): يجالس (Arabic), ᎠᏓᎦᏘᏰᎭ (adagatiyeha) (Cherokee), 代人照看孩子 (dàirén zhàokàn háizi) (Chinese Mandarin), 照看嬰兒 (Chinese Mandarin), 照看婴儿 (zhàokàn yīngér) (Chinese Mandarin), hlídat děti (Czech), babysitte (Danish), passe børn (Danish), babysitten (Dutch), kinderen passen (Dutch), olla lapsenvahtina (Finnish), olla lapsenlikkana (Finnish), faire du baby-sitting (French), garder (French), babysitten (German), שמרטף (shmirtéf) (Hebrew), bébiszitterkedik (Hungarian), bébiszittel (Hungarian), gyerekre vigyáz (Hungarian), fare da babysitter (Italian), 子守する (komori suru) (alt: こもりする) (Japanese), 아이를 봐주다 (aireul bwajuda) (Korean), 애들을 봐주다 (aedeureul bwajuda) [plural] (Korean), garder (Norman), sitte barnevakt (Norwegian Bokmål), passe barn (Norwegian Bokmål), pajear (Portuguese), ня́ньчиться (njánʹčitʹsja) (Russian), сиде́ть с ребёнком / с детьми (sidétʹ s rebjónkom / s detʹmi) (Russian), cuidar de los niños (Spanish), hacer de canguro (Spanish), sitta barnvakt (Swedish), trông trẻ (Vietnamese), trông em (Vietnamese)
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  2. (transitive, informal) To watch or tend a thing or process without normally intervening in it, e.g. as a precaution should an emergency happen. Tags: informal, transitive
    Sense id: en-babysit-en-verb-bvtiYhsG
  3. (transitive, informal) To watch or attend anything or anyone more closely than ought to be needed; to have to help or coax too much. Tags: informal, transitive Synonyms: coddle (english: partial) Translations (to watch or attend anything or anyone unnecessarily closely): nauwgelet begeleiden (Dutch), ня́ньчиться (njánʹčitʹsja) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-babysit-en-verb-14KALgiB Disambiguation of 'to watch or attend anything or anyone unnecessarily closely': 22 18 60
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: baby-sit Derived forms: birdysit Related terms: babysitter, catsit, dogsit, housesit

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "word": "子守する"
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          "word": "ня́ньчиться"
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          "word": "cuidar de los niños"
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          "sense": "to watch or attend anything or anyone unnecessarily closely",
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}
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    "Pages with entries",
    "Requests for review of Icelandic translations",
    "Terms with Arabic translations",
    "Terms with Cherokee translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Danish translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hebrew translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Icelandic translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Korean translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Norman translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Vietnamese translations"
  ],
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    {
      "word": "birdysit"
    }
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    }
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  "etymology_text": "Back-formation from babysitter.",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
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      "form": "babysitting",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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      "form": "babysat",
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        "participle",
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        "past"
      ]
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "babysitter"
    },
    {
      "word": "catsit"
    },
    {
      "word": "dogsit"
    },
    {
      "word": "housesit"
    }
  ],
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        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "My daughter is babysitting for the Morgans at number ten, who are going out on a date night.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "We need someone to babysit our children while we go to the theater.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:",
          "text": "Bart eventually gets Laura to babysit while Homer and Marge eat at the Sea Captain’s all-you-can-eat seafood joint, The Frying Dutchman.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money."
      ],
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        [
          "transitive",
          "transitive"
        ],
        [
          "intransitive",
          "intransitive"
        ],
        [
          "watch",
          "watch"
        ],
        [
          "tend",
          "tend"
        ],
        [
          "money",
          "money"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive) To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The reaction takes several hours, so we leave a graduate student to babysit it.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To watch or tend a thing or process without normally intervening in it, e.g. as a precaution should an emergency happen."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, informal) To watch or tend a thing or process without normally intervening in it, e.g. as a precaution should an emergency happen."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He left me to babysit the new guy while he got some work done.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Christopher Vasey, Nazi Intelligence Operations in Non-Occupied Territories, page 175:",
          "text": "It was observed by the FBI personnel assigned to “babysit” agent Tricycle that his egregiously excessive spending was causing unwanted attention […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To watch or attend anything or anyone more closely than ought to be needed; to have to help or coax too much."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, informal) To watch or attend anything or anyone more closely than ought to be needed; to have to help or coax too much."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "english": "partial",
          "word": "coddle"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbeɪ.bi.sɪt/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-babysit.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a4/En-us-babysit.ogg/En-us-babysit.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/En-us-babysit.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "baby-sit"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "يجالس"
    },
    {
      "code": "chr",
      "lang": "Cherokee",
      "roman": "adagatiyeha",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "ᎠᏓᎦᏘᏰᎭ"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "dàirén zhàokàn háizi",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "代人照看孩子"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "照看嬰兒"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhàokàn yīngér",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "照看婴儿"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "hlídat děti"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "babysitte"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "passe børn"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "babysitten"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "kinderen passen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "olla lapsenvahtina"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "olla lapsenlikkana"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "faire du baby-sitting"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "garder"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "babysitten"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "shmirtéf",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "שמרטף"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "bébiszitterkedik"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "bébiszittel"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "gyerekre vigyáz"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "fare da babysitter"
    },
    {
      "alt": "こもりする",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "komori suru",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "子守する"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "aireul bwajuda",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "아이를 봐주다"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "aedeureul bwajuda",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "애들을 봐주다"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "garder"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "sitte barnevakt"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "passe barn"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "pajear"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "njánʹčitʹsja",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "ня́ньчиться"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sidétʹ s rebjónkom / s detʹmi",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "сиде́ть с ребёнком / с детьми"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "cuidar de los niños"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "hacer de canguro"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "sitta barnvakt"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "trông trẻ"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "to watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money",
      "word": "trông em"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to watch or attend anything or anyone unnecessarily closely",
      "word": "nauwgelet begeleiden"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "njánʹčitʹsja",
      "sense": "to watch or attend anything or anyone unnecessarily closely",
      "word": "ня́ньчиться"
    }
  ],
  "word": "babysit"
}

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