helpmeet

noun

ˈhelp-ˌmēt How to pronounce helpmeet (audio)
Definition of helpmeetnext
1
as in assistant
a person who helps a more skilled person exasperated, the army surgeon requested a helpmeet who wouldn't faint at the sight of blood

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2
as in wife
a female partner in a marriage he and his helpmeet share a passion for rock climbing

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Recent Examples of helpmeet When Harold burned out on being the helpmeet to the rising star, Minnie took his place. — Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025 And yet, historically, the role of First Lady has depended on a kind of approachable legibility—a cheerful, open-bookish willingness to soften the hard edges that the role of President demands, through displays of helpmeet-like keenness. — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2024 Rather than serve as helpmeets to men, their husbands often took a backseat. — Marissa C. Rhodes / Made By History, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024 In a workplace, they’re expected to be helpmeets while also being held up as tokens of acceptance, a dynamic the characters bridle against and use to their advantage. — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for helpmeet
Recent Examples of Synonyms for helpmeet
  1. assistant
  2. wife
  3. aide
  4. apprentice
  5. aid
  6. adjutant
  7. deputy
  8. sidekick
Noun
  • In 2019 he was appointed deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy and force development.
    — Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2026
  • The legal questions are also different from those raised by earlier smart speakers and voice assistants.
    — MacKenzie Sigalos,Annie Palmer, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of assistant
Noun
  • In Oxford, Archer met Mary Weeden, a chemistry student who became his wife in 1966.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Murdaugh, a once-rich and imposing heir to a Southern legal dynasty, is scheduled to stand trial again in April on two murder charges in the June 2021 shooting deaths of his wife, Maggie, and younger son, Paul, at their home in Colleton County.
    — Jeffrey Collins, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of wife
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  • Javier Rezendez Rocha, who joined LADWP as an aide to electricians, was charged with 12 counts of felony vandalism in connection with the string of incidents that lasted from August 2025 to August 2026, according to a criminal complaint.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The president turned to his new aide, who identifies as a lawyer.
    — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 16 Oct. 2026
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  • Founding and patenting gabardine Thomas Burberry, a cloth merchant’s apprentice, established his own shop in 1856 in Basingstoke, England, then a rural town located southwest of London.
    — Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Oct. 2026
  • For carpenters, delays and poor weather conditions can disrupt the working hours apprentices need to complete their program, causing some to quit.
    — Itzel Franco, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
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  • Major disaster aid includes individual assistance, such as temporary housing, loans and repair grants, that disaster survivors need quickly to recover.
    — Dana R. Fisher, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2026
  • And there is the profiteering from death — the talk of resorts on the shores of Gaza, the government money saved by Elon Musk cutting off aid to starving children.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
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  • But that hasn’t stopped out-of-state reenactors from worrying their muskets will be confiscated at the George Washington Bridge, says Justin Costantino, adjutant of the Long Island Companies of the 3rd New York Regiment.
    — Allen G. Breed, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
  • In the months since fellow senior Legion executives suspended Abrahamson without pay from his statewide adjutant job in April, a number of the roughly 8,000 members in Idaho have called for a change in leadership.
    — Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 13 July 2024
Definition of adjutant
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  • Tracy Rieff is stepping down from his role of deputy fire chief after 36 years of volunteering with the Farmington Fire Department.
    — Lynn Kutter, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
  • But while critics on the Israeli right railed against the deal, Netanyahu’s deputies worked behind the scenes to preserve it, according to correspondence obtained by TIME.
    — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of deputy
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  • To be fair, a genre that’s given us everything from brooding, sparkling emo kids who play baseball; a stake-wielding teen slayer who can’t quit the bad boy; and eccentric sidekicks who feast on bugs is ripe with material for mockery.
    — Whitney Friedlander, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Other contestants this season include Food Network host Giada De Laurentiis, Summer House’s Ciara Miller, Jimmy Kimmel Live sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez, and musician Taylor Hanson.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2026
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“Helpmeet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/helpmeet. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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