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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That was true for Linda Wen, who checked into The Village when her husband expressed concern that hiring a confinement nanny who would live in their home would afford them little privacy.
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Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 8 May 2024
The only child of Polish Jews who fled to Lithuania, he was given to his nanny, a Catholic, as an infant to protect him as the Nazis took over and his parents were forced into the Vilna ghetto.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 5 May 2024
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Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 8 May 2024
The only child of Polish Jews who fled to Lithuania, he was given to his nanny, a Catholic, as an infant to protect him as the Nazis took over and his parents were forced into the Vilna ghetto.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 5 May 2024
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“Nanny.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nanny. Accessed 17 May. 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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