helpmate
Americannoun
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a companion and helper.
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a spouse.
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anything that aids or assists, especially regularly.
This calculator is my constant helpmate.
noun
Etymology
Origin of helpmate
Example Sentences
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But when Styron had depression in the 1980s she was a stalwart helpmate in his recovery, and encouraged him to write “Darkness Visible,” the memoir that has become one of his best known works.
From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2023
On the face of it, your partner doesn’t seem to have placed a high priority on being your stalwart helpmate.
From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2023
We see ourselves, our own troubled impulses, in her and, to some extent, in her helpmate Morgana.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2021
Her memorialization as wife and helpmate, and the corresponding backgrounding of her lifelong political commitments, misses the wider critique of social injustice that underlay her life’s work.
From The Guardian • Feb. 3, 2018
He started as a junior equity analyst, a helpmate, not expected to offer his own opinions.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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