amah

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else
  2. noun a female domestic

Etymology

From Portuguese ama (“female nurse”), from Medieval Latin amma (“wet nurse, amma”), perhaps an alteration of Latin mamma, of imitative origin, or from Ancient Greek.

In classic literature

Synonyms

wet nurse, wet-nurse, wetnurse

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