"wetnurse" meaning in 英語

See wetnurse in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: wet-nurse [alternative], wet nurse [alternative], wetnurses [plural]
  1. 乳母、自らの母乳の授乳を前提として、他人の乳児を預かる女性。
    Sense id: ja-wetnurse-en-noun-L9OsozGT
  2. (比喩的に)他人に対して過剰な世話を焼く人。
    Sense id: ja-wetnurse-en-noun-~VyiuVHY
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations: zoogmoeder [feminine] (オランダ語), Amme [feminine] (ドイツ語), ama-de-leite [feminine] (ポルトガル語)
Categories (other): 英語, 英語 名詞

Verb

Forms: wet-nurse [alternative], wet nurse [alternative], wetnurses [third-person, singular, present], wetnursing [present, participle], wetnursed [past, participle]
  1. ~の乳母をする。
    Sense id: ja-wetnurse-en-verb-hQs3PKf8
  2. ~を過剰に世話する。
    Sense id: ja-wetnurse-en-verb-YQAlPVTi
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): 英語, 英語 動詞
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "drynurse"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "英語",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "英語 名詞",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wet-nurse",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wet nurse",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wetnurses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "英語",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "名詞",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "乳母、自らの母乳の授乳を前提として、他人の乳児を預かる女性。"
      ],
      "id": "ja-wetnurse-en-noun-L9OsozGT",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "乳母",
          "うば"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "(比喩的に)他人に対して過剰な世話を焼く人。"
      ],
      "id": "ja-wetnurse-en-noun-~VyiuVHY"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "lang": "ドイツ語",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Amme"
    },
    {
      "lang": "オランダ語",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "zoogmoeder"
    },
    {
      "lang": "ポルトガル語",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ama-de-leite"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wetnurse"
}

{
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "英語",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "英語 動詞",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wet-nurse",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wet nurse",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wetnurses",
      "tags": [
        "third-person",
        "singular",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wetnursing",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "participle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wetnursed",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "participle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "英語",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "pos_title": "動詞",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "~の乳母をする。"
      ],
      "id": "ja-wetnurse-en-verb-hQs3PKf8"
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "~を過剰に世話する。"
      ],
      "id": "ja-wetnurse-en-verb-YQAlPVTi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wetnurse"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "drynurse"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "英語",
    "英語 名詞"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wet-nurse",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wet nurse",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wetnurses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "英語",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "名詞",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "乳母、自らの母乳の授乳を前提として、他人の乳児を預かる女性。"
      ],
      "ruby": [
        [
          "乳母",
          "うば"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "(比喩的に)他人に対して過剰な世話を焼く人。"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "lang": "ドイツ語",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Amme"
    },
    {
      "lang": "オランダ語",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "zoogmoeder"
    },
    {
      "lang": "ポルトガル語",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ama-de-leite"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wetnurse"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "英語",
    "英語 動詞"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wet-nurse",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wet nurse",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wetnurses",
      "tags": [
        "third-person",
        "singular",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wetnursing",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "participle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wetnursed",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "participle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "英語",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "pos_title": "動詞",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "~の乳母をする。"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "~を過剰に世話する。"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wetnurse"
}

Download raw JSONL data for wetnurse meaning in 英語 (1.4kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable 英語 dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-18 from the jawiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (074e7de and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.