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Sep. 28, 2014
Word of the Day

helpmate Audio Pronunciation
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\HELP-meyt\
noun
1. a companion and helper.
2. a spouse.
Quotes
A confederate who foresees your conclusions and course of action is always dangerous, but one to whom each development comes as a perpetual surprise, and to whom the future is always a closed book, is, indeed an ideal helpmate.
-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier," The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes, 1927
Origin
Helpmate entered English in the early 1700s from the Middle English construction helpmeet which was used in The Wycliffite Bible.
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