Usually means: Caregiver for children, often live-in.
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  1. nanny: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. nanny: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nanny: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nanny: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nanny: Vocabulary.com
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  7. nanny: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Nanny, nanny: Wiktionary
  9. nanny: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. nanny: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. nanny: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Nanny, nanny: Dictionary.com
  13. nanny: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. nanny: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Nanny: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. nanny: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. nanny: Rhymezone
  19. nanny: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. nanny: Free Dictionary
  21. nanny: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. nanny: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. nanny: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Nanny: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  4. nanny: Medical dictionary
  5. Nanny: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. nanny, nanny, nanny, nanny, nanny, nanny: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Nanny, nanny: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See nannies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A child's nurse.
noun:  (colloquial) A grandmother.
noun:  (US, colloquial) A godmother.
noun:  A female goat.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive) To serve as a nanny.
verb:  (transitive, derogatory) To treat like a nanny's charges; to coddle.
noun:  A diminutive of the female given names Ann or Anne.

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