Helper
['helpə(r)] or ['hɛlpɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, helps, aids, assists, or relieves; as, a lay helper in a parish.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Assistant, ally, auxiliary, coadjutor, aider, abettor, colleague, partner.
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Examples
- Many of these are quite large, and at least one-third of them require one additional helper, thus adding, say, 33,000 employees to the number already mentioned. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As a conductress of Indian schools, and a helper amongst Indian women, your assistance will be to me invaluable. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I wos a carrier's boy at startin'; then a vaginer's, then a helper, then a boots. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- For he was now divorcing his old helper Josephine, because she was childless, in order to secure the continuity of his dynasty. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There are many others who have no friends, who must look about for themselves and be their own helpers; and what is their resource? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Allah is your Patron, and He is the best of the helpers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But there is the seed of an invention in it which might convert the police from mere agents of repression to kindly helpers in the mazes of a city. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Me fawther has three Scotch garners with nine helpers. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They are called saviours and helpers, he replied. Plato. The Republic.
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