aider
Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈeɪdə/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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/ˈeɪdɚ/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
Noun
A person who aids or assists.
- Examples
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The capitaines of the toune seyng theire pillers borken, and their chief ayders discomfited, rendered the toune to the duke of Somerset,
[…] arte is neither an aider nor a surmounter, but onely a bare immitatour of natures works, following and counterfeyting her actions and effects […]
More examples (2)
[…] being there as an assistant, he actually seemed—[…]—to be the aider and abettor of a system which filled him with honest disgust and indignation, […]
The woman in question had, as she said, been a close friend of Margaret’s, and, as such, an aider in her habits of intemperance.
A mountaineer's stirrup or étrier.
- Examples
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As I was switching my feet in my aiders, the hook popped.
Word forms
aiders