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verb (used with object)
1.
to provide support for or relief to; help: to aid the homeless victims of the fire.
2.
to promote the progress or accomplishment of; facilitate.
verb (used without object)
3.
to give help or assistance.
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noun
4.
help or support; assistance.
5.
a person or thing that aids or furnishes assistance; helper; auxiliary.
6.
EXPANDaids, Manège.
a.
b.
Also called artificial aids. the devices by means of which a rider increases control of a horse, as spurs, whip, and martingale.
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a payment made by feudal vassals to their lord on special occasions.
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COLLAPSEEnglish History. (after 1066) any of several revenues received by a king in the Middle Ages from his vassals and other subjects, limited by the Magna Charta to specified occasions.
Origin:
1375–1425; (noun) late Middle English ayde < Anglo-French, Old French aide, noun derivative of aid(i)er < Latin adjūtāre to help (frequentative of adjuvāre), equivalent to ad- ad- + -jū- help + -t- frequentative suffix + -āre infinitive suffix; (v.) < Anglo-French, Old French aid(i)er < Latin, as above
1375–1425; (noun) late Middle English ayde < Anglo-French, Old French aide, noun derivative of aid(i)er < Latin adjūtāre to help (frequentative of adjuvāre), equivalent to ad- ad- + -jū- help + -t- frequentative suffix + -āre infinitive suffix; (v.) < Anglo-French, Old French aid(i)er < Latin, as above
Related forms
aid·er, noun
aid·ful, adjective
aid·less, adjective
un·aid·ed, adjective
un·aid·ed·ly, adverb
EXPANDun·aid·ing, adjective
COLLAPSEAntonyms
2. hinder, frustrate.
2. hinder, frustrate.
Usage note
Although the nouns aid and aide both have among their meanings “an assisting person,” the spelling aide is increasingly used for the sense “helper, assistant”: One of the senator's aides is calling. Aide in military use is short for aide-de-camp. It is also the spelling in nurse's aide.
Although the nouns aid and aide both have among their meanings “an assisting person,” the spelling aide is increasingly used for the sense “helper, assistant”: One of the senator's aides is calling. Aide in military use is short for aide-de-camp. It is also the spelling in nurse's aide.
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Word Origin & History
aid
late 15c., from O.Fr. aidier, from L. adjutare, freq. of adiuvare (pp. adjutus) "give help to" (see adjutant).
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AID abbr.
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