helper
/ˈhɛlpɚ/
helper noun: one who helps; an aide; assistant; auxiliary.
Noun
helper (plural helpers)
- One who helps; an aide; assistant; auxiliary.
- That which helps; anything serving to assist.
- While Adobe's Acrobat Reader, Macromedia's Flash player, and other common plug-ins suggest themselves the moment you encounter a site that requires them, other browser helpers are harder to find.2005, PC World, volume 23, page 158
- He no longer liked food that had “helper” in the name, such as Hamburger Helper and Tuna Helper. Patsy said he'd become uppity, and maybe, when it came to food, he had.2012, Jude Deveraux, The Mulberry Tree, page 84
- A person who does cleaning and cooking in a family home, or in a market; domestic employee.
- A locomotive that assists a train, usually on steep gradients.
- A device for the automatic control of crewless helper locomotives cut into the make-up of heavy freight trains has been perfected by the Louisville & Nashville RR in conjunction with the General Railway Signalling Co.1964 November, “Automatic helper locomotive control on the Louisville & Nashville RR, USA”, in Modern Railways, page 354
- Synonyms:
- banker
- A stimulating pill, especially amphetamine.
- And I routinely took more “helpers” when I woke up in order to maintain the fast pace and, more importantly, to study for my final exams.1985, Priscilla Presley, Sandra Harmon, Elvis and Me, Putnam, →ISBN, page 152
Proper noun capitalized: Helper
Helper
- A city in Carbon County, Utah, United States, which got its name from the practice of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad of attaching helper engines to trains there.
- A surname; variant of Halpern or Helfer.
helper meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
helper in Hindi
- one who helps
- सहायक sahāyak
helper in Tamil
- உதவியாளர், கையாள், உதவியாள், ஏவலாள்
helper in Marathi
- helper, underlying
- हस्तक hastak
helper in Urdu
- one who helps
- مَدَدْگار madadgār, سَہایَک sahāyak, یاوَر yāvar
More languagesFewer languages
- helper in Bengali
- সহায়ক śohaẏok
- helper in Telugu
- సహాయకుడు sahāyakuḍu
- helper in Malayalam
- സഹായി sahāyi
- helper in Kannada
- ಒತ್ತಾಸೆಗಾರ, ಒತ್ತಾಳು, ನೆರವಿಗ
- helper in Odia
- ସାହାଯ୍ଯ଼କାରୀ
- helper in Sanskrit
- करण káraṇa, ऊम ū́ma
- helper in Pashto
- مرستونی mrastunay
- helper in Arabic
- مُسَاعِد musāʕid, مُسَاعِدَة musāʕida, مُعَاوِن muʕāwin, مُعَاوِنَة muʕāwina
- helper in Indonesian
- penolong, pembantu
- helper in Thai
- ผู้ช่วย pûu-chûai
- helper in Vietnamese
- phó thủ
- helper in Myanmar
- အကူ a.ku
Examples of helper in a sentence
- In remote method invocation, the client helper is a ‘stub’ and the service helper is a ‘skeleton’.
- We have helpers aplenty but lack the skilled support.
- In the kitchen, partly partitioned by a curtain, the cateress and her helper were busy.
Synonyms of helper
Forms of helper
| plural | helpers |
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Origin of helper
From Middle English helpere, from Old English *helpere, from Proto-West Germanic *helpārī (“helper”), equivalent to help + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hälper (“helper”), West Frisian helper (“helper”), Dutch helper (“helper”), German Low German Helper (“helper”), German Helfer (“helper”), Danish hjælper (“helper”), Swedish hjälpare (“helper”), Icelandic hjálpar (“helper”).
Words formed from helper
Phrases with helper
Questions about helper
- What does helper mean?
- Helper means one who helps; an aide; assistant; auxiliary.
- What is helper in Hindi?
- Helper in Hindi is सहायक (sahāyak). See Helper meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is helper?
- Helper can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce helper?
- Helper is pronounced /ˈhɛlpɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of helper?
- The plural of helper is helpers.
Words near helper in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: helper (page history and authors); Helper (page history and authors); helper (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); हस्तक (Marathi) (page history and authors); സഹായി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); helper (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); helper (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ऊम (Sanskrit) (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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