(BrE) a young person, usually a woman, who lives with a family in a foreign country in order to learn the language. An au pair helps in the house and takes care of children and receives a small wage:
She worked in Paris for six months as an au pair. * There are very few male au pairs.
Rate this entry
About this entry
This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for au pair is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is au pair a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, au pair is tagged as noun.
Does au pair appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — au pair appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
What is Lughet?
Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
