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aider

/ˈeɪdə/US/ˈeɪdɚ/

aider noun: a person who aids or assists.

Noun

aider (plural aiders)

  1. A person who aids or assists.
    • The capitaines of the toune seyng theire pillers borken, and their chief ayders discomfited, rendered the toune to the duke of Somerset,1548, Edward Hall, “The trobleous season of Kyng Henry the sixt, The .xv. yere”, in Hall’s Chronicle, London: Richard Grafton
    • […] arte is neither an aider nor a surmounter, but onely a bare immitatour of natures works, following and counterfeyting her actions and effects […]1589, George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie, London: Richard Field, Book 3, Chapter 15, p. 254
  2. A mountaineer's stirrup or étrier.
    • As I was switching my feet in my aiders, the hook popped.

Examples of aider in a sentence

  • […] being there as an assistant, he actually seemed—[…]—to be the aider and abettor of a system which filled him with honest disgust and indignation, […]1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, “Of the Internal Economy of Dotheboys Hall”, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby...
  • The woman in question had, as she said, been a close friend of Margaret’s, and, as such, an aider in her habits of intemperance.1898, Paul Laurence Dunbar, chapter III, in The Uncalled: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 23:

Forms of aider

pluralaiders

Origin of aider

From aid + -er.

Phrases with aider

Words that rhyme with aider

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Questions about aider

What does aider mean?
Aider means a person who aids or assists.
How do you use aider in a sentence?
[…] being there as an assistant, he actually seemed—[…]—to be the aider and abettor of a system which filled him with honest disgust and indignation, […]
What part of speech is aider?
Aider is a noun.
How do you pronounce aider?
Aider is pronounced /ˈeɪdə/ (UK).
What is the plural of aider?
The plural of aider is aiders.

Words near aider in the dictionary

  1. aided school
  2. aided schools
  3. aidedst
  4. Aiden
  5. Aidenn
  6. aider
  7. aider and abettor
  8. aiders
  9. aiders and abettors
  10. aides
  11. aides-de-camp

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