Helpmeet Definition

hĕlpmēt
helpmeets
noun
helpmeets
A helpmate.
American Heritage

Helpmate.

Webster's New World

A helpful partner, particularly a spouse.

Wiktionary
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Other Word Forms of Helpmeet

Noun

Singular:
helpmeet
Plural:
helpmeets

Origin of Helpmeet

  • From misunderstanding of the phrase an help meet for him a helper suitable for him (Adam), in Genesis 2:18, referring to Eve

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

  • From a (mis?)interpretation of the phrase in Genesis 2:18 "an help meet" for Adam (i.e. suitable for him).

    From Wiktionary

Helpmeet Sentence Examples

  • This gift will be a pledge of your purity of heart to her whom you select to be your worthy helpmeet in Masonry.

  • Thus at one step Pasteur gained a place of honour among the chemists of the day, and was immediately appointed professor of chemistry at the Faculte of Science at Strasburg, where he soon afterwards married Mlle Laurent, who proved herself to be a true and noble helpmeet.

  • His whole career is one long record of perjury, vengeance and meanness, unredeemed by a single generous act, and his wife was a worthy helpmeet and actively co-operated in his tyranny.

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Words Starting With

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Words Ending With

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Words Starting With H and Ending With T

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