ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Aider

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈeɪdə/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Aider is a noun meaning A person who aids or assists.

Meaning

A person who aids or assists.

More Meanings

  1. (climbing) A mountaineer's stirrup or étrier.

Example Sentences

As I was switching my feet in my aiders, the hook popped.
The woman in question had, as she said, been a close friend of Margaret’s, and, as such, an aider in her habits of intemperance.
The capitaines of the toune seyng theire pillers borken, and their chief ayders discomfited, rendered the toune to the duke of Somerset,
[…] arte is neither an aider nor a surmounter, but onely a bare immitatour of natures works, following and counterfeyting her actions and effects […]

Word Forms

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Related dictionary entries include assisting, assistance, help, helping, aidant, assister.

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