Home › Words › N › nursemannursemannurseman means A man employed to care for children.EtymologyFrom nurse + -man.nounA man employed to care for children.e.g.“Danby, the nurseman, was cautioned against kissing, or permitting kisses from the little girl (still the baby of the Evelyn family);” — 1859, Oliné Keese [pen name; Caroline Leakey], “Port Arthur.—The Settlement.”, in The Broad Arrow: Being Passages from the History of Maida Gwynnham, a Lifer, volume II, London: Richard Bentley, page Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.nursemaid 81% match — A woman or girl employed to care for children. vs nurseman →nurserymaid 70% match — nursemaid vs nurseman →nursie 69% match — A nurse. vs nurseman →manny 67% match — A male nanny (for children). vs nurseman →sicknurse 67% match — A nurse; a person employed to take care of somebody who is unwell. vs nurseman →childminder 62% match — A person employed to look after other people's children while they are away; a babysitter. vs nurseman →childcarer 62% match — One who works in childcare. vs nurseman →amah 61% match — A woman employed to look after children; (formerly) a wet nurse. vs nurseman →