assistant
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- assistaunt (obsolete)
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French assistant, from assister.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
assistant (not comparable) (attributive)
- Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.
- an assistant surgeon
- 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[ndrew] Millar […], OCLC 928184292:
- The person principally assistant on this occasion, indeed the only one who did any service, or seemed likely to do any, was the landlady […]
- 1790, James Beattie, Elements of Moral Science
TranslationsEdit
having a subordinate or auxiliary position
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NounEdit
assistant (plural assistants)
- (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[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- 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 […].
- A person who assists or helps someone else.
- (Britain) Sales assistant.
- A software tool that provides assistance in some task, a wizard program.
- Synonym: wizard
TranslationsEdit
person who assists
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an auxiliary software tool — see wizard
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
assistant
NounEdit
assistant m (plural assistants, feminine assistante)
Further readingEdit
- “assistant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
LatinEdit
VerbEdit
assistant
Middle FrenchEdit
VerbEdit
assistant (feminine singular assistante, masculine plural assistans, feminine plural assistantes)
NounEdit
assistant m (plural assistans)
- assistant (person who is present)
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English assistant.
NounEdit
assistant m (plural assistants, feminine assistante)