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Meaning of HELPER

Pronunciation:  'helpur

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a person who helps people or institutions
  2. [n]  a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; "my invaluable assistant"; "they hired additional help to finish the work"
 
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 Synonyms: assistant, benefactor, help
 
 See Also: accommodator, accomplice, acolyte, actor's assistant, aide, attendant, attender, auxiliary, benefactress, bondsman, bondswoman, cat's-paw, chief assistant, coadjutor, confederate, deliverer, dental assistant, deputy, do-gooder, donor, dresser, enforcer, event planner, facilitator, fashion model, girl Friday, giver, good person, good Samaritan, hatchet man, humanitarian, improver, instrument, labor coach, liberator, lieutenant, man Friday, manakin, manikin, mannequin, mannikin, model, monitrice, obliger, offerer, offeror, paraprofessional, patron, pawn, poser, powder monkey, presenter, prompter, provider, rescuer, right-hand man, Samaritan, savior, saviour, secretarial assistant, secretary, sidesman, sparer, sponsor, supporter, tender, theater prompter, uncle, water boy, waterer, whipper-in, worker

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Help"er\, n.
One who, or that which, helps, aids, assists, or relieves;
as, a lay helper in a parish.
      Thou art the helper of the fatherless.   --Ps. x. 14.
      Compassion . . . oftentimes a helper of evils. --Dr. H.
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Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: acolyte, adjutant, agent, aid, aide, aide-de-camp, aider, ancilla, assistant, assister, associate, attendant, auxiliary, backer, befriender, benefactor, benefactress, benefiter, best man, coadjutant, coadjutor, coadjutress, coadjutrix, deputy, employee, executive officer, follower, good person, good Samaritan, help, helping hand, helpmate, helpmeet, inferior, jack-at-a-pinch, junior, laborer, lieutenant, ministering angel, ministrant, paranymph, paraprofessional, patron, right-hand man, Samaritan, second, secondary, servant, sideman, striker, subordinate, succorer, supporting actor, supporting instrumentalist, underling, understrapper, worker
 

 

 

 

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