Usually means: Caregivers who breastfeed another's infant.
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We found 10 dictionaries that define the word wet nurses:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. wet-nurses, wet nurses: Merriam-Webster
  2. wet-nurses, wet-nurses, wet nurses: Collins English Dictionary
  3. wet nurses: Vocabulary.com
  4. wet-nurses: Wordnik
  5. wet nurses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. wet-nurses, wet nurses: Wiktionary
  7. wet-nurses: Dictionary.com
  8. wet-nurses, wet nurses: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. wet nurses: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. wet-nurses, wet nurses: Medical dictionary

(Note: See wet_nurse as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (wet nurse)

noun:  A woman hired to suckle another woman's child.
noun:  (figuratively, by extension) Someone who treats someone else with excessive care.
verb:  (transitive) To act as a wet nurse (in either sense).
▸ Also see wet_nurse


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