Helpmate Definition

hĕlpmāt
helpmates
noun
helpmates
A helpful companion; specif., a wife or, sometimes, a husband.
Webster's New World

A person who supplies help or companionship.

Wiktionary

(chess) A recreational problem in chess in which both sides cooperate to achieve a specific goal.

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Origin of Helpmate

  • A folk-etymological alteration of helpmeet, by reanalysis as help + mate.

    From Wiktionary

  • help mate (influenced by helpmeet)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Helpmate Sentence Examples

  • Bill was going to get himself a fine helpmate.

  • At the bottom she has been what all good wives must be, an absolute helpmate and a good adviser.

  • For the right man, I'm willing to turn over the running of the farm and become his helpmate.

  • Capricorn traits are many, yet all dovetail back to the most outstanding trait of all, that you can always count of having a helpmate who understands and enjoys the concept of a loving partnership for life.

  • She was not accepted by court society; it did not matter to her that even Goethe's intimate friends ignored her; and she, who had suited the poet's whim when he desired to shut himself off from all that might dim the recollection of Italy, became with the years an indispensable helpmate to him.

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Words Starting With

HHEHEL

Words Ending With

ETEATE

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Words Starting With H and Ending With E

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Word Length

8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With H8 Letter Words Ending With E