aidman

[ eyd-man, -muhn ]

noun

, plural aid·men [eyd, -men, -m, uh, n].

1. a military medical corpsman trained to provide initial emergency treatment.

Word History and Origins

Origin of aidman¹

First recorded in 1940–45; aid + man

Example Sentences

Following the original's five-season run, there was a 1983 film produced by Steven Spielberg and narrated by Burgess Meredith, a mid-1980s iteration narrated by Charles Aidman and an early aughts version hosted by Forest Whitaker that ran on UPN.

From Los Angeles Times

There are some good secondary performances, though: by Charles Aidman as a sort of Babbitt aborning, Lee Purcell as a wilted prairie flower, and Dran Hamilton as Billy's mother.

From Time Magazine Archive

Charles Aidman, who staged the project, has linked related characters and interspersed the verse vignettes with folk songs.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Without the Herter committee's groundwork," said a top Washington aidman. "the program of foreign aid would never have been passed."

From Time Magazine Archive