adj
Meaning 1
Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive, not-comparable
Examples
- an assistant surgeon
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
assistant
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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adj
Meaning 2
Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive, not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A person who assists or helps someone else.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
Sales assistant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
A software tool that provides assistance in some task, a wizard program.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: wizard
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 7
of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: adjunct
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- my invaluable assistant
- they hired additional help to finish the work
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: helper, help, supporter
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: worker
Narrower terms: coadjutor, accomplice, confederate, aide, auxiliary, attendant, attender, tender, bat boy, dental assistant, deputy, lieutenant, dresser, actor's assistant, event planner, facilitator, flower girl, girl Friday, hatchet man, enforcer, instrument, pawn, cat's-paw, labor coach, birthing coach, doula, monitrice, underboss, mannequin, manikin, mannikin, manakin, fashion model, model, poser, paraprofessional, powder monkey, prompter, theater prompter, right-hand man, chief assistant, man Friday, secretary, secretarial assistant, sidesman, subordinate, subsidiary, underling, foot soldier, water boy, waterer, whipper-in
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *steh2- Proto-Indo-European *stísteh2ti Proto-Italic *sistō Latin sistō Latin assistōbor. Middle French assister Proto-Indo-European *-onts Latin -ns Latin -āns Old French -ant Middle French -ant Middle French assistantbor. Middle English assistent English assistant From Middle English assistent, from Middle French assistant, from assister. By surface analysis, assist + -ant.
Across languages
Translations
212 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: спомага́телен (spomagátelen) — having a subordinate or auxiliary position
- Catalan: auxiliar — having a subordinate or auxiliary position
- Finnish: apu- — having a subordinate or auxiliary position
- Finnish: vara- — having a subordinate or auxiliary position
- Finnish: avustava — having a subordinate or auxiliary position
- Finnish: apulais- — having a subordinate or auxiliary position
- Georgian: დამხმარე (damxmare) — having a subordinate or auxiliary position
- German: helfend — having a subordinate or auxiliary position
- German: hilfreich — having a subordinate or auxiliary position
- Greek: βοηθητικός (voïthitikós) — having a subordinate or auxiliary position
- Ancient Greek: συνεργός (sunergós) — having a subordinate or auxiliary position
- Hungarian: helyettes — having a subordinate or auxiliary position
- Hungarian: segéd — having a subordinate or auxiliary position
- Icelandic: aðstoðar- — having a subordinate or auxiliary position
- Korean: 보조 (bojo) — having a subordinate or auxiliary position
- Korean: 시다 (sida) — having a subordinate or auxiliary position
- Northern Kurdish: asîstan — having a subordinate or auxiliary position
- Ladino: ayudador — having a subordinate or auxiliary position
- Marathi: सहाय्यक (sahāyyak) — having a subordinate or auxiliary position
- Norwegian Bokmål: assisterende — having a subordinate or auxiliary position
- Polish: asystencki — having a subordinate or auxiliary position
- Portuguese: assistente — having a subordinate or auxiliary position
- Romanian: asistent — having a subordinate or auxiliary position
- Russian: вспомога́тельный (vspomogátelʹnyj) — having a subordinate or auxiliary position
- Spanish: ayudante — having a subordinate or auxiliary position
- Swahili: naibu — having a subordinate or auxiliary position
- Turkish: asistan — having a subordinate or auxiliary position
- Albanian: asistent — person who assists
- Albanian: asistente — person who assists
- Albanian: ndihmës — person who assists
- Albanian: ndihmëtar — person who assists
- Amharic: ረዳት (rädat) — person who assists
- Arabic: مُسَاعِد (musāʕid) — person who assists
- Arabic: مُسَاعِدَة (musāʕida) — person who assists
- Arabic: مُعَاوِن (muʕāwin) — person who assists
- Arabic: مُعَاوِنَة (muʕāwina) — person who assists
- Armenian: օգնական (ōgnakan) — person who assists
- Asturian: asistente — person who assists
- Azerbaijani: köməkçi — person who assists
- Azerbaijani: yardımçı — person who assists
- Bashkir: ярҙамсы (yarźamsı) — person who assists
- Belarusian: памо́чнік (pamóčnik) — person who assists
- Belarusian: памо́чніца (pamóčnica) — person who assists
- Belarusian: асістэ́нт (asistént) — person who assists
- Belarusian: асістэ́нтка (asisténtka) — person who assists
- Bengali: সহায়ক (śohaẏok) — person who assists
- Bulgarian: помо́щник (pomóštnik) — person who assists
- Bulgarian: помо́щничка (pomóštnička) — person who assists
- Bulgarian: помо́щница (pomóštnica) — person who assists
- Bulgarian: асисте́нт (asistént) — person who assists
- Bulgarian: асисте́нтка (asisténtka) — person who assists
- Burmese: အကူ (a.ku) — person who assists
- Catalan: assistent — person who assists
- Catalan: assistenta — person who assists
- Cebuano: kabulig — person who assists
- Chinese Cantonese: 助理 (zo6 lei5) — person who assists
- Chinese Cantonese: 助手 (zo6 sau2) — person who assists
- Chinese Cantonese: 副手 (fu3 sau2) — person who assists
- Chinese: 助理 (zh-min-nan) — person who assists
- Chinese: 助手 (chō͘-chhiú) — person who assists
- Chinese Mandarin: 助理 (zhùlǐ) — person who assists
- Chinese Mandarin: 助手 (zhùshǒu) — person who assists
- Chinese Mandarin: 副手 (fùshǒu) — person who assists
- Czech: asistent — person who assists
- Czech: asistentka — person who assists
- Czech: pomocník — person who assists
- Czech: pomocnice — person who assists
- Danish: assistent — person who assists
- Danish: hjælper — person who assists
- Danish: medhjælper — person who assists
- Dutch: assistent — person who assists
- Dutch: assistente — person who assists
- Egyptian: Xr:r-a:Z1-A1 (ẖrj-ꜥ) — person who assists
- Esperanto: asistanto — person who assists
- Estonian: abiline — person who assists
- Estonian: asetäitja — person who assists
- Estonian: assistent — person who assists
- Finnish: assistentti — person who assists
- Finnish: apulainen — person who assists
- Finnish: avustaja — person who assists
- French: assistant — person who assists
- French: aide — person who assists
- French: auxiliaire — person who assists
- Middle French: assistant — person who assists
- Galician: asistente — person who assists
- Georgian: ასისტენტი (asisṭenṭi) — person who assists
- German: Assistent — person who assists
- German: Mitarbeiter — person who assists
- German: Helfer — person who assists
- German: Gehilfe — person who assists
- Greek: βοηθός (voïthós) — person who assists
- Ancient Greek: βοηθός (boēthós) — person who assists
- Ancient Greek: ὑπουργός (hupourgós) — person who assists
- Hebrew: עוֹזֵר (ozér) — person who assists
- Hindi: सहायक (sahāyak) — person who assists
- Hindi: मददगार (madadgār) — person who assists
- Hungarian: asszisztens — person who assists
- Hungarian: segéd — person who assists
- Icelandic: aðstoðarmaður — person who assists
- Ido: helpanto — person who assists
- Ido: helpero — person who assists
- Indonesian: pembantu — person who assists
- Irish: cúntóir — person who assists
- Italian: assistente — person who assists
- Japanese: 助手 (joshu) — person who assists
- Japanese: 手伝い — person who assists
- Japanese: アシスタント (ashisutanto) — person who assists
- Karelian: abuniekka — person who assists
- Kazakh: көмекші (kömekşı) — person who assists
- Kazakh: ассистент (assistent) — person who assists
- Khmer: អ្នកជំនួយ (nĕək cumnuəy) — person who assists
- Khmer: ភូឈួយ (phuu chuəy) — person who assists
- Korean: 조수 (josu) — person who assists
- Korean: 도우미 (doumi) — person who assists
- Central Kurdish: شاگرد (şagrid) — person who assists
- Northern Kurdish: arîkar — person who assists
- Northern Kurdish: alîkar — person who assists
- Kyrgyz: жардамчы (jardamcı) — person who assists
- Kyrgyz: ассистент (assistent) — person who assists
- Lao: ຜູ້ຊ່ວຍ (phū suāi) — person who assists
- Lao: ຜູ້ຮອງ (phū hǭng) — person who assists
- Latin: adiūtor — person who assists
- Latin: adiūtrix — person who assists
- Latin: optiō — person who assists
- Latin: administer — person who assists
- Latvian: asistents — person who assists
- Latvian: asistente — person who assists
- Latvian: palīgs — person who assists
- Latvian: palīdze — person who assists
- Lithuanian: asistentas — person who assists
- Lithuanian: asistentė — person who assists
- Lithuanian: padėjėjas — person who assists
- Lithuanian: padėjėja — person who assists
- Livvi: abuniekku — person who assists
- Macedonian: помагач (pomagač) — person who assists
- Macedonian: помагачка (pomagačka) — person who assists
- Macedonian: помошник (pomošnik) — person who assists
- Macedonian: помошничка (pomošnička) — person who assists
- Macedonian: асистент (asistent) — person who assists
- Macedonian: асистентка (asistentka) — person who assists
- Malay: pembantu — person who assists
- Māori: taituarā — person who assists
- Māori: kaiāwhina — person who assists
- Māori: uruora — person who assists
- Māori: piki — person who assists
- Marathi: सहाय्यक (sahāyyak) — person who assists
- Middle English: servaunt — person who assists
- Mongolian: туслагч (tuslagč) — person who assists
- Norman: assistant — person who assists
- Norwegian Bokmål: assistent — person who assists
- Norwegian Bokmål: medhjelper — person who assists
- Norwegian Nynorsk: assistent — person who assists
- Norwegian Nynorsk: medhjelpar — person who assists
- Iranian Persian: دَسْتْیار (dastyâr) — person who assists
- Iranian Persian: آسیسْتان (âsistân) — person who assists
- Iranian Persian: یاوَر (yâvar) — person who assists
- Polish: asystent — person who assists
- Polish: asystentka — person who assists
- Polish: pomocnik — person who assists
- Polish: pomocnica — person who assists
- Portuguese: assistente — person who assists
- Portuguese: ajudante — person who assists
- Romanian: asistent — person who assists
- Romanian: asistentă — person who assists
- Romanian: ajutor — person who assists
- Romanian: ajutoare — person who assists
- Russian: ассисте́нт (assistént) — person who assists
- Russian: ассисте́нтка (assisténtka) — person who assists
- Russian: помо́щник (pomóščnik) — person who assists
- Russian: помо́щница (pomóščnica) — person who assists
- Scottish Gaelic: cuidiche — person who assists
- Serbo-Croatian: помо̀ћнӣк — person who assists
- Serbo-Croatian: асѝстент — person who assists
- Serbo-Croatian: pomòćnīk — person who assists
- Serbo-Croatian: asìstent — person who assists
- Slovak: pomocník — person who assists
- Slovak: pomocníca — person who assists
- Slovak: asistent — person who assists
- Slovak: asistentka — person who assists
- Slovene: pomočnik — person who assists
- Slovene: pomočnica — person who assists
- Spanish: ayudante — person who assists
- Spanish: asistente — person who assists
- Swahili: msaidizi — person who assists
- Swedish: assistent — person who assists
- Swedish: medhjälpare — person who assists
- Tajik: ёрдамчӣ (yordamči) — person who assists
- Tajik: дастёр (dastyor) — person who assists
- Tajik: ёвар (yovar) — person who assists
- Tajik: ассистент (assistent) — person who assists
- Tatar: ярдәмче (yärdämçe) — person who assists
- Thai: ผู้ช่วย (pûu-chûai) — person who assists
- Turkish: yardımcı — person who assists
- Turkish: asistan — person who assists
- Turkish: muavin — person who assists
- Ottoman Turkish: یاردمجی (yardımcı) — person who assists
- Ottoman Turkish: امدادجی (imdâdcı) — person who assists
- Ottoman Turkish: ناصر (nâsır) — person who assists
- Turkmen: kömekçi — person who assists
- Ukrainian: помічни́к (pomičnýk) — person who assists
- Ukrainian: помічни́ця (pomičnýcja) — person who assists
- Ukrainian: асисте́нт (asystént) — person who assists
- Ukrainian: асисте́нтка (asysténtka) — person who assists
- Urdu: مَدَدْگار (madadgār) — person who assists
- Urdu: سَہایَک (sahāyak) — person who assists
- Urdu: یاوَر (yāvar) — person who assists
- Uyghur: ياردەمچى (yardemchi) — person who assists
- Uzbek: yordamchi — person who assists
- Uzbek: assistent — person who assists
- Vietnamese: phó thủ — person who assists
- Vietnamese: người phụ việc — person who assists
- Volapük: yufan — person who assists
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