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help·mate (help′māt′)

noun

a helpful companion; specif., a wife or, sometimes, a husband

Etymology: altered < helpmeet

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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