nursemaid vs amah

nursemaid and amah both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
nursemaid	Yes	No	No	No
amah	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, amah is a hyponym of nursemaid; that is, amah is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than nursemaid:

Other hyponyms of nursemaid include dry nurse, mammy, wet-nurse, wet nurse, wetnurse.

nursemaid (noun)	amah (noun)
a woman who is the custodian of children	a female domestic
	a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else