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View synonyms for helpmate

helpmate

[ help-meyt ]

noun

  1. a companion and helper.
  2. a spouse.
  3. anything that aids or assists, especially regularly:

    This calculator is my constant helpmate.



helpmate

/ ˈhɛlpˌmeɪt /

noun

  1. a companion and helper, esp a wife
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of helpmate1

1705–15; help + mate 1, by association with helpmeet
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Example Sentences

In the enigmatic role of first lady, she struggled with the symbolism—part beauty queen, part saint, part helpmate.

I have promised on your behalf that you will be a good and faithful helpmate to him before God and man.

She is not strong, and not good-looking, and not young; but what a splendid helpmate she would be for a sensible, cultivated man!

But her life was busy and earnest: she was helpmate, not in name only, to an ever-busy man.

Abby'll make a man a good, vigorous helpmate, and she'll bring him money in time.

Compare a bachelor's house with the same house after its master has taken to himself a helpmate.

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