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Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who helps, aids, or assists; an auxiliary; one who affords assistance, comfort, or remedy.
  • noun Specifically, one who is employed as assistant to another in doing some kind of work: as, a blacksmith's or a groom's helper.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, helps, aids, assists, or relieves.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who helps; an aide.
  • noun Singapore A person who does cleaning and cooking in a family, or in a market.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help)
  • noun a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

to help + -er

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Examples

  • The code in the method is basically the same thing as you write in regular Razor rendering logic, but the fact that it's inside an @helper method turns it into a declarative helper.

    Site Home davidebb 2010

  • Other researchers have described a similar phenomenon that they call "helper's high" -- positive feelings that can border on elation.

    Christine Carter, PhD: Can Watching the Crisis In Japan Be Good For Us? PhD Christine Carter 2011

  • Other researchers have described a similar phenomenon that they call "helper's high" -- positive feelings that can border on elation.

    Christine Carter, PhD: Can Watching the Crisis In Japan Be Good For Us? PhD Christine Carter 2011

  • Your helper is too precious and I love the flowers in the baskets.

    Table Centerpieces 2008

  • As in Genesis, the word helper likely signals mutuality.

    Eve: Apocrypha. 2009

  • The first helper is courtesy of Mexconnect poster "jerezano", who told us a while back about a new toll-road that bypasses Zacatecas going south towards Aguascalientes.

    Ajijic via Zacatecas and Aguascalientes route 2006

  • The thumping may be done by the driver's helper from a runway on the back of the truck, to guide him in backing.

    Communicating In Latin America 1997

  • The thumping may be done by the driver's helper from a runway on the back of the truck, to guide him in backing.

    Communicating In Latin America 1997

  • Some T lymphocytes are called the helper cells because they promote immune responses and encourage the B lymphocytes to produce more antibody, and different T lymphocytes, known as suppressor cells, inhibit immune reponses and tell the B lymphocytes that it is time to cut back on production.

    THE LUPUS HANDBOOK FOR WOMEN ROBIN DIBNER 1994

  • Some T lymphocytes are called the helper cells because they promote immune responses and encourage the B lymphocytes to produce more antibody, and different T lymphocytes, known as suppressor cells, inhibit immune reponses and tell the B lymphocytes that it is time to cut back on production.

    THE LUPUS HANDBOOK FOR WOMEN ROBIN DIBNER 1994

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