assistant
Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.
Adjective
- Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.
- an assistant surgeon
- Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
- Genius and learning […] are mutually and greatly assistant to each other. - 1790, James Beattie, Elements of Moral Science:
- The person principally assistant on this occasion, indeed the only one who did any service, or seemed likely to do any, was the landlady […] - 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please...
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti Proto-Italic *sistō Latin sistō Latin assistōbor. Middle French assister Proto-Indo-European *-onts Latin -ns Latin -āns Old French -ant Middle French -ant Middle French assistantbor. Middle English assistent English assistant From Middle English assistent, from Middle French assistant, from assister. By surface analysis, assist + -ant.
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Noun
- Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.
- a woman of great authority, having first yeelded an accompt unto her Citizens, and shewed good reasons why she was resolved to end her life, earnestly entreated Pompey to be an assistant at her death, that so it might...
- A person who assists or helps someone else.
- Sales assistant.
- A software tool that provides assistance in some task, a wizard program.
Synonyms: wizard
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