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helpmate

helpmate noun: a person who supplies help or companionship.

Noun

helpmate (plural helpmates)

  1. A person who supplies help or companionship.
    Synonyms:
    aide, helper, tutor
  2. A wife or spouse.
    • The host himself was one of those very quiet men whom we usually see linked to the most active helpmates.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 191
  3. A recreational problem in chess in which both sides cooperate to achieve a specific goal.

helpmate meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

helpmate in Tamil

துணைவன், துணைவி, துணையாக இருந்து உதவுபவர்

helpmate in Urdu

معین

helpmate in Malayalam

assistant, helper, attendant
സഹായി, തുണ, കൂട്ടാൾ, സഹായിനി, സഹകാരി, സഹകാരിണി

helpmate in Kannada

ಸಂಗಾತಿ, ಸಹಾಯಕ, ಒಡನಾಡಿ, ಜೊತೆಗಾರ, ಜೊತೆಗಾತಿ, ಸಹಧರ್ಮಿ

Synonyms of helpmate

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All synonyms of helpmate

Forms of helpmate

pluralhelpmates

Origin of helpmate

A folk-etymological alteration of helpmeet, by reanalysis as help + mate.

Words formed from helpmate

Questions about helpmate

What does helpmate mean?
Helpmate means a person who supplies help or companionship.
What is helpmate in Tamil?
Helpmate in Tamil is துணைவன், துணைவி, துணையாக இருந்து உதவுபவர். See Helpmate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is helpmate?
Helpmate is a noun.
What is the plural of helpmate?
The plural of helpmate is helpmates.

Words near helpmate in the dictionary

  1. helplessnesses
  2. helpline
  3. helplines
  4. helpliness
  5. helply
  6. helpmate
  7. helpmates
  8. helpmeet
  9. helpmeets
  10. Helprin
  11. Helpringham

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: helpmate (page history and authors); helpmate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); helpmate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); helpmate (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); helpmate (Kannada 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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