单词 | amah |
释义 | amah (once / 137434 pages) 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, handmaidena personal maid or female attendant lady's maida maid who is a lady's personal attendant parlormaid, parlourmaida 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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