au pair

noun

ˈō-ˈper 

plural au pairs ˈō-ˈperz 

: a usually young foreign person who cares for children and does domestic work for a family in return for room and board and the opportunity to learn the family's language

Examples of au pair in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Leo confides in the shark to process a confusing world until the spirited and bubbly au pair Anya (Bakalova) bursts into their lives. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 6 July 2026

Transposing the book onto a contemporary setting, Jude’s take centers on an impoverished Romanian migrant, Gianina, played by a sensational Ana Dumitrașcu, who finds work as a housekeeper and au pair for a smugly bourgeois-bohemian couple living in Bordeaux. — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 11 June 2026

But inside their home, Brendan and the family's live-in au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, were spinning a web of infidelity and deception that culminated in a chilling double homicide. — Alyssa Modos, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026

The live-in au pair, 25-year-old Juliana Peres Magalhaes of Brazil, with whom prosecutors said Banfield was having an affair, separately pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, after which she will be deported, Fairfax County prosecutors said. — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 6 June 2026

Word History

Etymology

French, on even terms

First Known Use

1934, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for au pair

• abwehr
• affair
• affaire
• airfare
• altair
• armchair
• aware
• beware
• bugbear
• carfare
• childcare
• compare