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- Dictionarynanny/ˈnani/
noun
- 1. a person, in particular a woman, employed to look after a child in its own home.
- 2. one's grandmother. informal
verb
- 1. work as a nanny: "she cooked, cleaned, and nannied for a family in California"
- 2. be overprotective towards: "stop nannying us! We are capable of dealing with our own lives"
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a woman employed to take care of children in the children’s home: She relied on a nanny to care for her baby during the week.
[1] A baboe and the children in her care in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia ), 1934. Nannies were often present in the households of the colonial officials tasked with managing vast colonial empires.
: a child's nurse or caregiver. Synonyms. babysitter. dry nurse. nursemaid. nurser. sitter. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of nanny in a Sentence. When I was growing up, I had a nanny. wrote a memoir recounting her days as a nanny for the rich and often indiscreet.
Nanny definition: a person, usually with special training, employed to care for children in a household.. See examples of NANNY used in a sentence.
Definition of nanny noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
A nanny is someone who is paid by parents to look after their child or children. Demand has grown recently for basements with accommodation for a nanny and other staff. Synonyms: childminder , nurse , au pair , governess More Synonyms of nanny
a woman employed to take care of children in the children’s home: She relied on a nanny to care for her baby during the week.
Being a nanny goes beyond hourly childcare — a nanny is usually the person who spends the most time with a baby or child. A nanny might feed, bathe, play with, and otherwise care for a toddler, or drive an older child to ballet lessons.
( ˈnænɪ) n, pl -nies. 1. a nurse or nursemaid for children. 2. a. any person or thing regarded as treating people like children, esp by being patronizing or overprotective. b. ( as modifier ): the nanny state. 3. a child's word for grandmother. vb, nannies, nannying or nannied. 4. ( intr) to nurse or look after someone else's children.
NANNY definition: someone whose job is to look after a family's children: . Learn more.
