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helpmeet
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Word definitions for helpmeet in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Helpmeet \Help"meet`\, n. [See Helpmate .] A wife; a helpmate. The Lord God created Adam, . . . and afterwards, on his finding the want of a helpmeet, caused him to sleep, and took one of his ribs and thence made woman. --J. H. Newman.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A helpful partner, particularly a spouse.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
as two words in the 1611 Bible, a noun-adjective phrase; hyphenated and mistaken as a modified noun by 1670s; see helpmate .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a helpful partner [syn: helpmate ]
Usage examples of helpmeet.
I would think Momie would be a happy helpmeet in anything you decided to do, Clem, farm or furs.
Of course the Annexes know nothing about this, and they may think, as he professed himself willing to lecture on medicine to women, he might like to take one of his pupils as a helpmeet.
Was she an helpmeet for a black-letter man, who talked with the Fathers in his daily walks, could extemporise Latin hexameters, and dream in Greek.
She had been his helpmeet in many unavowable extravagances, in the days when he was still striving after a brilliant position in town.
As the wife of the erudite schoolteacher of Dhaka, she had entered into her duties with a will, the perfect helpmeet, bringing her husband cardamom-scented tea when he stayed up late marking examination papers, ingratiating herself with the school principal at the termly Staff Families Outing, struggling with the novels of Bibhutibhushan Banerji and the metaphysics of Tagore in an attempt to be more worthy of a spouse who could quote effortlessly from Rig--Veda as well as Quran--Sharif, from the military accounts of Julius Caesar as well as the Revelations of St John the Divine.