aide

[ eyd ]
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noun
  1. an assistant or helper, especially a paid employee: Years ago, my mom was a teacher’s aide in a kindergarten classroom.

  2. nurse's aide: During the war she worked as an aide in a field hospital, changing bedpans and cleaning floors.

  1. an assistant or advisor to a public figure, especially one who works for a person in public office:He is a journalist and former White House aide.

  2. home health aide: The agency just called to say my mom's aide didn't show up this morning.

Origin of aide

1
An Americanism first recorded in 1770–80; from French: literally, “helper”; see origin at aid

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How to use aide in a sentence

  • Meanwhile, he had been selected as aide-de-camp by General d'Ure de Molans.

    Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-Pattison
  • The Marshal never forgave the aide-de-camp who had thus urged him to spend his money.

    Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-Pattison
  • His excellency took one end of the table, and an aide-de-camp the other: I was seated between M. and Madame do Rego.

  • As he did so a dozen Boers dashed out of the kopje, and aide opened fire on them, which caused the Boers to fire a volley at him.

  • The aide-de-camp of Calvin and Theodore de Beze contrasted admirably with the son of the furrier.

    Catherine de' Medici | Honore de Balzac

British Dictionary definitions for aide

aide

/ (eɪd) /


noun
  1. an assistant

  2. social welfare an unqualified assistant to a professional welfare worker

  1. short for aide-de-camp

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