variants
or less commonly nannie
plural nannies
: a child's nurse or caregiver
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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
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Also during that run, the news broke that Law had been cheating on Miller with his children’s nanny.
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Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 28 June 2024
While still a young girl, Tubman was taken away from her mother and forced to work as a maid, a nanny, a trapper, and a field hand.
—Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
Other things that happen, in no particular order: Benedict Bridgerton’s kid gets deathly ill, a nanny beats Phillip’s kids with books, Phillip has trauma flashbacks about his own abusive childhood, Phillip is sad about war and death, Eloise shoots a gun better than any of her brothers.
—Erin Strecker, IndieWire, 20 June 2024
The marketing executive and married mother of two toddlers was at a wedding when their nanny called with the alarming report: After hearing five gunshots outside, glass splintered inside from a hurricane-impact window that spider-cracked but didn’t fail.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 27 May 2024
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Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 28 June 2024
While still a young girl, Tubman was taken away from her mother and forced to work as a maid, a nanny, a trapper, and a field hand.
—Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
Other things that happen, in no particular order: Benedict Bridgerton’s kid gets deathly ill, a nanny beats Phillip’s kids with books, Phillip has trauma flashbacks about his own abusive childhood, Phillip is sad about war and death, Eloise shoots a gun better than any of her brothers.
—Erin Strecker, IndieWire, 20 June 2024
The marketing executive and married mother of two toddlers was at a wedding when their nanny called with the alarming report: After hearing five gunshots outside, glass splintered inside from a hurricane-impact window that spider-cracked but didn’t fail.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 27 May 2024
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“Nanny.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nanny. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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nanny
noun
nan·ny
ˈnan-ē 
: a woman who is paid to care for a young child usually in the child's home
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