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helpmate
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"companion," 1715, altered from helpmeet , a ghost word, from the Biblical translation of Latin adjutorium simile sibi [Gen. ii:18] as "an help meet (i.e. fit) for him" (Hebrew 'ezer keneghdo ), which already by 1673 was being printed as help-meet and mistaken ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A helpmate is a type of chess problem in which both sides cooperate in order to achieve the goal of checkmating Black. In a helpmate in n moves, Black moves first, then White, each side moving n times, to culminate in White's nth move checkmating Black. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Helpmate \Help"mate`\, n. [A corruption of the ``help meet for him'' of --Genesis ii. 18. --Fitzedward Hall.] A helper; a companion; specifically, a wife. In Minorca the ass and the hog are common helpmates, and are yoked together in order to ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a helpful partner [syn: helpmeet ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who supplies help or companionship. 2 A wife or spouse. 3 (context chess English) A recreational problem in chess in which both sides cooperate to achieve a specific goal.
Usage examples of helpmate.
He would make an ideal helpmate, worshipping his employer with that rare quality of being interested in his ideas and aims beyond the mere earning of a salary.
She was short, well-formed, round-faced, always an excellent helpmate and hos-less, but her bubbliness had dwindled on the Moon.
Perhaps in no minor point does woman astonish her helpmate more than in the strange power she possesses of believing cajoleries that she knows to be false—except, indeed, in that of being utterly sceptical on strictures that she knows to be true.
Real helpmates, they was, ready to take their share in all that was going.
But his wife upheld his pure, rigid values, and during their twenty-year marriage, in the thousands of nights that they'd shared the same bed - as companions, as helpmates, as soul mates - they'd engaged in sex a total of only three times, and during those three ritualistic occasions, they'd permitted themselves to experience the base pleasures of the flesh strictly for the purpose of producing children.
The bridesmaids, down to little Jane Gradgrind, were, in an intellectual point of view, fit helpmates for the calculating boy.