helper

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person who helps someone with a task.

   The teacher chose two helpers to hand out the books.

2. 2
   noun

   A thing that gives assistance or makes a task easier.

   This little tool is a real helper when fixing bikes.

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”).

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