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coadjutor

UK/kəʊəˈd͡ʒuːtə/

coadjutor noun: an assistant or helper.

Noun

coadjutor (plural coadjutors)

  1. An assistant or helper.
    • Then have the lady patronesses and their active coadjutors, whether noble or ignoble, all the work of beating up for recruits to go over again.1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 174
    • The mountaineer, with all his pulses aquiver, looked down into his coadjutor’s white, startled face.1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, pages 206–7
  2. An assistant to a bishop.
    • When old age rendered any Bishop unable to perform his duties, the first example of which occurs AD 211, when Alexander became coadjutor to Narcissus at Jerusalem1842, John Henry Newman, The Ecclesiastical History of M. L'abbé Fleury
    • August then appointed Prince George III of Anhalt (who was both a theologian and a priest as well as a prince) to be his coadjutor in spiritual matters.2005, James Martin Estes, Peace, Order and the Glory of God

coadjutor meaning in Tamil and Indonesian

coadjutor in Tamil

உதவியாளர், துணைவர்

coadjutor in Indonesian

assistant to a bishop
koajutor

Forms of coadjutor

pluralcoadjutors

Origin of coadjutor

From Middle English coadjutowre, from Old French coadjuteur, borrowed from Late Latin coadiūtōrem, from co- + adiūtor (“helper”), from adiuvō (“to help”) + -tor (agent suffix). By surface analysis, co- + adjutor. The French derivation gave the accentuation co⁠ˈadjutor (used by Samuel Taylor Coleridge), but the poets generally, since 1600, appear to have coa⁠ˈdjutor, after Latin. No Latin *coadiuvō or *coadiūtō is recorded, but in the modern languages words have been formed on these types, suggested by coadjutor.

Words formed from coadjutor

Phrases with coadjutor

Questions about coadjutor

What does coadjutor mean?
Coadjutor means an assistant or helper.
What is coadjutor in Tamil?
Coadjutor in Tamil is உதவியாளர், துணைவர். See Coadjutor meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is coadjutor?
Coadjutor is a noun.
How do you pronounce coadjutor?
Coadjutor is pronounced /kəʊəˈd͡ʒuːtə/ (UK).
What is the plural of coadjutor?
The plural of coadjutor is coadjutors.

Words near coadjutor in the dictionary

  1. coadjute
  2. coadjuted
  3. coadjutes
  4. coadjuting
  5. coadjutive
  6. coadjutor
  7. coadjutor bishop
  8. coadjutor bishops
  9. coadjutors
  10. coadjutorship
  11. coadjutorships

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coadjutor (page history and authors); coadjutor (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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