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[ UK /nˈɜːsme‍ɪd/ ]
NOUN
  1. a woman who is the custodian of children

How To Use nursemaid In A Sentence

  • Commander Laurel D' ken smiled wryly as the blue haired officer said to Allison, ‘We'll need to nursemaid them a bit but I think they'd be able to manage well enough.’
  • an Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
  • Behind the floral chintz sofa and armchairs was a white-clothed table laden with food, where Peter and Jenny sat with a nursemaid. THE GOLDEN LION
  • Major exporters included Navip in Serbia who nursemaided a joint project with the Japanese in a well-equipped winery near Belgrade.
  • I could not simply impose a cook-general or a nursemaid on Grace against her will. ULTIMATE PRIZES
  • In actuality she was overly nervous rather than arrogant, however, and Capra nursemaided her through the shooting.
  • My mother kept a cook and a nursemaid, and a dvornik, or outdoor man, to take care of the horses, the cow, and the woodpile. The Promised Land
  • The care of children was normally the task of parents and the immediate family, but, amongst the wealthy, care was the responsibility of special servants, such as nursemaids or ‘nannies’.
  • Anne moved closer to Amelia, feeling like a little girl again as she nearly clutched her nursemaid's skirts.
  • It makes not Germany but France seem - in choral music as in Gluckian drama - the nursemaid of Classicism.
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