aids
/eɪdz//eɪdz/
aids is the plural of aid.
aids is the third-person singular simple present indicative of aid.
Meaning of aid
Noun
aid (countable and uncountable, plural aids)
- Help; assistance; succor, relief.
- He came to my aid when I was foundering.
- A helper; an assistant.
- It is not good that man should bee alone, let vs make vnto him an aide like to himselfe.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Tobit 8:6
- Something which helps; a material source of help.
- Slimming aids include dietary supplements and appetite suppressants.
- An historical subsidy granted to the crown by Parliament for an extraordinary purpose, such as a war effort.
- In this parliament was granted to the king for defence against the Scots two aids and two quindecims, the which two aids did not extend over two quindecims.2019, Julia Boffey, Henry VII's London in the Great Chronicle, page 71
- An exchequer loan.
- A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his feudal lord on special occasions.
Noun (1) capitalized: AIDS
AIDS (uncountable)
- Acronym of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
- The student-led group has consistently ranked among the top 20 fundraisers for the walkathon, organizers said. Started 15 years ago by a determined 7-year-old named Leo Beckerman, Kids Who Care has raised more than $500,000 for AIDS organizations, according to the Beckerman family, of Studio City.2005 October 17, Erika Hayasaki, “‘Kids Who Care’ a Force at Annual AIDS Walk”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original...
- Patients with AIDS become highly susceptible to infection by intracellular microbes normally contained by T cells (Fig. 4.8).2007, Clinical Pathology, →ISBN, page 50
Adjective capitalized: AIDS
AIDS (comparative more AIDS, superlative most AIDS)
- Extremely annoying or frustrating.
- Dude, this game is so fucking AIDS.
- Synonyms:
- cancer, pure cancer
Noun (2) capitalized: Aids
Aids (uncountable)
- Alternative letter-case form of AIDS (“acquired immune deficiency syndrome”).
- If you were a South African health journalist during the late 1990s and early 2000s, you were mostly an Aids reporter.2023 August 7, Mia Malan, “A pandemic is not just a disease – it’s a political, social and economic crisis fuelled by inequality”, in The Guardian
Synonyms of aids
Forms of aids
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Aids |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more AIDS |
| superlative | most AIDS |
Words formed from aids
Phrases with aids
- job aids
- sex aids
- deaf aids
- rinse aids
- AIDS babies
- I have AIDS
- visual aids
- AIDS ribbons
- finding aids
- foreign aids
- hearing aids
- marital aids
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Words that rhyme with aids
Questions about aids
- What does aids mean?
- Aids means extremely annoying or frustrating.
- What is aids the plural of?
- Aids is the plural of aid.
- What part of speech is aids?
- Aids can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce aids?
- Aids is pronounced /eɪdz/ (UK).
Words near aids in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: aids (page history and authors); AIDS (page history and authors); Aids (page history and authors); aid (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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