"wet nurse" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-wet nurse.wav Forms: wet nurses [plural], wet-nurse [alternative], wetnurse [alternative]
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  1. A woman hired to suckle another woman's child. Categories (topical): Babies, Breastfeeding, Female, Occupations, People Translations (woman hired to suckle another woman's child): mendeshë [feminine] (Albanian), τροφός (trophós) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), τιθήνη (tithḗnē) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), ظِئْر (ẓiʔr) (Arabic), دَايَة (dāya) [feminine] (Arabic), داية (dāya) [Gulf-Arabic, feminine] (Arabic), ծծմայր (ccmayr) (Armenian), ստնտու (stntu) (Armenian), кармі́целька (karmícjelʹka) [feminine] (Belarusian), кърма́чка (kǎrmáčka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), до́йка (dójka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), dida (Campidanese Sardinian), dida [feminine] (Catalan), dida seca [feminine] (Catalan), nodrissa [feminine] (Catalan), دایان (dayan) (Central Kurdish), دایەن (dayen) (Central Kurdish), 乳母 (rǔmǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), 奶媽 /奶妈 (nǎimā) (Chinese Mandarin), баба (baba) [Cyrillic, feminine] (Church Slavic), kojná [feminine] (Czech), amme [common-gender] (Danish), zoogmoeder [feminine] (Dutch), min [feminine] (Dutch), zoogster [feminine] (Dutch), voedster [feminine] (Dutch), minne [feminine] (Dutch), minnemoeder [feminine] (Dutch), mn:n-a:t*D27 (mnꜥt) (Egyptian), nutristino (Esperanto), amm (Estonian), bróstmóðir [feminine] (Faroese), imettäjä (Finnish), nourrice [feminine] (French), ama [feminine] (Galician), ama de leite [feminine] (Galician), Säugamme [feminine] (German), Amme [feminine] (German), τροφός (trofós) [feminine] (Greek), παραμάνα (paramána) [feminine] (Greek), دایانە (dāyāna) (Gurani), מֵינֶקֶת (meinéket) [feminine] (Hebrew), (szoptatós) dajka (Hungarian), brjóstmóðir [feminine] (Icelandic), banaltra chíche [feminine] (Irish), bean oiliúna [feminine] (Irish), bean altrama [feminine] (Irish), balia (Italian), 乳母 (alt: うば, uba, おんば, onba, ちうば, chiuba, ちおも, chiomo, にゅうぼ, nyūbo, まま, mama, めのと, menoto) (Japanese), មេដោះ (mee dɑh) (Khmer), 유모 (yumo) (alt: 乳母) (Korean), nūtrix [feminine] (Latin), altrix [feminine] (Latin), zīdītāja [feminine] (Latvian), äm (Livonian), доилка (doilka) [feminine] (Macedonian), дојница (dojnica) [feminine] (Macedonian), ibu susuan (Malay), norice (Middle English), မိဂမဴတှ် (Mon), ၝဲဂမဴ (Mon), dayan (Northern Kurdish), dayîn (Northern Kurdish), amme [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), دایه (dāye) (Persian), mamka [feminine] (Polish), ama de leite [feminine] (Portuguese), doică [feminine] (Romanian), корми́лица (kormílica) [feminine] (Russian), ма́мка (mámka) [dated, feminine] (Russian), tatàya [Logudorese] (Sardinian), tadàia (Sassarese), muime-chìche [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), до̀јӣља [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), dòjīlja [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), mammana [feminine] (Sicilian), nurrizza [feminine] (Sicilian), kojná [feminine] (Slovak), dojka [feminine] (Slovak), dojílja [feminine] (Slovene), nodriza [feminine] (Spanish), pasiega [feminine] (Spanish), ama de leche [feminine] (Spanish), ama de cría [feminine] (Spanish), criandera [feminine] (Spanish), chichigua [feminine] (Spanish), aña [feminine] (Spanish), mena (Sranan Tongo), ᮞᮥᮞ᮪ᮒᮨᮁ ᮘᮞᮩᮂ (suster baseuh) (Sundanese), amma [common-gender] (Swedish), sisiwa (Tagalog), mamay (Tagalog), แม่นม (mɛ̂ɛ-nom) (Thai), ནུ་སྦྱིན་མ་ཚབ (nu sbyin ma tshab) (Tibetan), sütanne (Turkish), 𐎎𐎌𐎐𐎖𐎚 (mšnqt) (Ugaritic), годува́льниця (hoduválʹnycja) [feminine] (Ukrainian), годівни́ця (hodivnýcja) [feminine] (Ukrainian), ма́мка (mámka) [feminine] (Ukrainian), vú nuôi (Vietnamese), sügan [feminine, masculine] (Volapük), hisügan (note: in science fiction) [masculine] (Volapük), jisügan [feminine] (Volapük), miligafat (note: in science fiction) [masculine] (Volapük), miligamot [feminine] (Volapük), אַם (am) [feminine] (Yiddish), זייגערין (zeygerin) [feminine] (Yiddish)
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  2. (figuratively, by extension) Someone who treats someone else with excessive care. Tags: broadly, figuratively Translations (someone who treats someone else with excessive care): ня́нька (njánʹka) [feminine] (Russian), consentidor [masculine] (Spanish), consentidora [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-wet_nurse-en-noun-Zv-PLGGO Disambiguation of 'someone who treats someone else with excessive care': 2 98

Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-wet nurse.wav Forms: wet nurses [present, singular, third-person], wet nursing [participle, present], wet nursed [participle, past], wet nursed [past], wet-nurse [alternative], wetnurse [alternative]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} wet nurse (third-person singular simple present wet nurses, present participle wet nursing, simple past and past participle wet nursed)
  1. (transitive) To act as a wet nurse (in either sense). Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-wet_nurse-en-verb-T7YishD7

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          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Breastfeeding",
          "orig": "en:Breastfeeding",
          "parents": [
            "Babies",
            "Body",
            "Female",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Children",
            "All topics",
            "Gender",
            "Human",
            "Youth",
            "Fundamental",
            "Biology",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "Age",
            "People",
            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "Time",
            "Society"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "100 0 0",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Female",
          "orig": "en:Female",
          "parents": [
            "Gender",
            "Biology",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Society",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "77 23 0",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Occupations",
          "orig": "en:Occupations",
          "parents": [
            "People",
            "Work",
            "Human",
            "Human activity",
            "All topics",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "85 15 0",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: dry nurse"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A woman hired to suckle another woman's child."
      ],
      "id": "en-wet_nurse-en-noun-ra0vUPsf",
      "links": [
        [
          "woman",
          "woman"
        ],
        [
          "hire",
          "hire"
        ],
        [
          "suckle",
          "suckle"
        ],
        [
          "child",
          "child"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "sq",
          "lang": "Albanian",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "mendeshë"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "ẓiʔr",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "word": "ظِئْر"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "dāya",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "دَايَة"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "afb",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "dāya",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "Gulf-Arabic",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "داية"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "ccmayr",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "word": "ծծմայր"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "stntu",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "word": "ստնտու"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "karmícjelʹka",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "кармі́целька"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "kǎrmáčka",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "кърма́чка"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "dójka",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "до́йка"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "dida"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "dida seca"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "nodrissa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "rǔmǔ",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "word": "乳母"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "nǎimā",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "word": "奶媽 /奶妈"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "kojná"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "amme"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "zoogmoeder"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "min"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "zoogster"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "voedster"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "minne"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "minnemoeder"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "egy",
          "lang": "Egyptian",
          "roman": "mnꜥt",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "word": "mn:n-a:t*D27"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "word": "nutristino"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "word": "amm"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fo",
          "lang": "Faroese",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "bróstmóðir"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "word": "imettäjä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "nourrice"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ama"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ama de leite"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Säugamme"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Amme"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "trofós",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "τροφός"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "paramána",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "παραμάνα"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "trophós",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "τροφός"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "tithḗnē",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "τιθήνη"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "hac",
          "lang": "Gurani",
          "roman": "dāyāna",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "word": "دایانە"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "meinéket",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "מֵינֶקֶת"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "word": "(szoptatós) dajka"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "brjóstmóðir"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "banaltra chíche"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "bean oiliúna"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "bean altrama"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "word": "balia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "alt": "うば, uba, おんば, onba, ちうば, chiuba, ちおも, chiomo, にゅうぼ, nyūbo, まま, mama, めのと, menoto",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "word": "乳母"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "mee dɑh",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "word": "មេដោះ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "alt": "乳母",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "yumo",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "word": "유모"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ckb",
          "lang": "Central Kurdish",
          "roman": "dayan",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "word": "دایان"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ckb",
          "lang": "Central Kurdish",
          "roman": "dayen",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "word": "دایەن"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "kmr",
          "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "word": "dayan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "kmr",
          "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "word": "dayîn"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "nūtrix"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "altrix"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "zīdītāja"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "liv",
          "lang": "Livonian",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "word": "äm"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "doilka",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "доилка"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "dojnica",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "дојница"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "word": "ibu susuan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "enm",
          "lang": "Middle English",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "word": "norice"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "mnw",
          "lang": "Mon",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "word": "မိဂမဴတှ်"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "mnw",
          "lang": "Mon",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "word": "ၝဲဂမဴ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "amme"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "cu",
          "lang": "Church Slavic",
          "roman": "baba",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "баба"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "dāye",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "word": "دایه"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "mamka"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ama de leite"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "doică"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "kormílica",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "корми́лица"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "mámka",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "dated",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ма́мка"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "sc",
          "lang": "Campidanese Sardinian",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "word": "dida"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "sc",
          "lang": "Sardinian",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "Logudorese"
          ],
          "word": "tatàya"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "sdc",
          "lang": "Sassarese",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "word": "tadàia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "muime-chìche"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "до̀јӣља"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "dòjīlja"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "scn",
          "lang": "Sicilian",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "mammana"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "scn",
          "lang": "Sicilian",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "nurrizza"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "kojná"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "dojka"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "dojílja"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "nodriza"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "pasiega"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ama de leche"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ama de cría"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "criandera"
        },
        {
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      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "word": "មេដោះ"
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      "alt": "乳母",
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      "roman": "yumo",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
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      "code": "la",
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      "code": "la",
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      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
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      "code": "liv",
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      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
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      "code": "ms",
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      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
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      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "word": "norice"
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      "code": "mnw",
      "lang": "Mon",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "word": "မိဂမဴတှ်"
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      "code": "mnw",
      "lang": "Mon",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "word": "ၝဲဂမဴ"
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
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        "masculine"
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      "word": "amme"
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      "code": "cu",
      "lang": "Church Slavic",
      "roman": "baba",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
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      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "dāye",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "word": "دایه"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mamka"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ama de leite"
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "doică"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kormílica",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "корми́лица"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "mámka",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ма́мка"
    },
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      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Campidanese Sardinian",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "word": "dida"
    },
    {
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "tatàya"
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      "code": "sdc",
      "lang": "Sassarese",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "word": "tadàia"
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      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "muime-chìche"
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "tags": [
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        "feminine"
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      "word": "до̀јӣља"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
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      "word": "dòjīlja"
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      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mammana"
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    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nurrizza"
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      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kojná"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dojka"
    },
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      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dojílja"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nodriza"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pasiega"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ama de leche"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ama de cría"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "criandera"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "chichigua"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "aña"
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      "code": "srn",
      "lang": "Sranan Tongo",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "word": "mena"
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      "code": "su",
      "lang": "Sundanese",
      "roman": "suster baseuh",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "word": "ᮞᮥᮞ᮪ᮒᮨᮁ ᮘᮞᮩᮂ"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
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      "word": "amma"
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    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "word": "sisiwa"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "word": "mamay"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "mɛ̂ɛ-nom",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "word": "แม่นม"
    },
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      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "nu sbyin ma tshab",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "word": "ནུ་སྦྱིན་མ་ཚབ"
    },
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "word": "sütanne"
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      "code": "uga",
      "lang": "Ugaritic",
      "roman": "mšnqt",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "word": "𐎎𐎌𐎐𐎖𐎚"
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "hoduválʹnycja",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "годува́льниця"
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "hodivnýcja",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "годівни́ця"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "mámka",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ма́мка"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "word": "vú nuôi"
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    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "sügan"
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      "code": "vo",
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    {
      "code": "vo",
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    {
      "code": "vo",
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      "note": "in science fiction",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
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    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "code": "yi",
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      "roman": "am",
      "sense": "woman hired to suckle another woman's child",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "אַם"
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      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "zeygerin",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "זייגערין"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "njánʹka",
      "sense": "someone who treats someone else with excessive care",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ня́нька"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "someone who treats someone else with excessive care",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "consentidor"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "someone who treats someone else with excessive care",
      "tags": [
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