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单词 amah
释义
amah
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n

WORD FAMILY
amah: amahs
USAGE EXAMPLES
“Da-A-Fu — bring this girl home and tell Amah to take care of her. She has not slept in a warm bed for a long time.”
Grace Lin, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon(2009)
I asked my amah, who always managed to appear next to my bed the instant I was awake.
Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club(1989)
"It is very sad to think that we may not have a senior team to progress into," says David Amah, captain of that junior team.
BBC(Jan 08, 2014)
1n a female domestic
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
housemaid, maid, maidservant
chambermaid, fille de chambre
a maid who is employed to clean and care for bedrooms (now primarily in hotels)
handmaid, handmaiden
a personal maid or female attendant
lady's maid
a maid who is a lady's personal attendant
parlormaid, parlourmaid
a maid in a private home whose duties are to care for the parlor and the table and to answer the door
domestic, domestic help, house servant
a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household
2n a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else
Syn|Hyper
wet nurse, wet-nurse, wetnurse
nanny, nurse, nursemaid
a woman who is the custodian of children
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