assistant

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle French assistant, from assister.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /əˈsɪstənt/[1]
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Adjective

assistant (not comparable) (attributive)

  1. Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.
    an assistant surgeon
  2. Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
    • 1790, James Beattie, Elements of Moral Science:
      Genius and learning […] are mutually and greatly assistant to each other.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A Millar, , →OCLC:
      The person principally assistant on this occasion, indeed the only one who did any service, or seemed likely to do any, was the landlady […]

Translations

Noun

assistant (plural assistants)

  1. (obsolete) Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.
    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 3, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book II, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC:
      a woman of great authority, having first yeelded an accompt unto her Citizens, and shewed good reasons why she was resolved to end her life, earnestly entreated Pompey to be an assistant at her death, that so it might be esteemed more honourable […].
  2. A person who assists or helps someone else.
  3. (British) Sales assistant.
  4. A software tool that provides assistance in some task, a wizard program.
    Synonym: wizard

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References

  1. ^ https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assistant

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

Participle

assistant

  1. present participle of assister

Noun

assistant m (plural assistants, feminine assistante)

  1. assistant

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Turkish: asistan

Further reading

Latin

Verb

assistant

  1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of assistō

Middle French

Verb

assistant (feminine singular assistante, masculine plural assistans, feminine plural assistantes)

  1. present participle of assister
  2. (may be preceded by en, invariable) gerund of assister

Noun

assistant m (plural assistans)

  1. assistant (person who is present)

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English assistant.

Noun

assistant m (plural assistants, feminine assistante)

  1. (Jersey) assistant
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