HELPMATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does helpmate mean? 

• HELPMATE (noun)
  The noun HELPMATE has 1 sense:

1. a helpful partner

  Familiarity information: HELPMATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HELPMATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A helpful partner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

helpmate; helpmeet

Hypernyms ("helpmate" is a kind of...):

better half; married person; mate; partner; spouse (a person's partner in marriage)

 Context examples 

It was better, if he could, to have his helpmate inside the house.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I felt that, as to fortune, in all probability he might do much better; and that as to a rational companion or useful helpmate, he could not do worse.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

His particular specialty is the beguiling of lonely ladies by playing upon their religious feelings, and his so-called wife, an Englishwoman named Fraser, is a worthy helpmate.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mrs. Jennings, however, with a kindness of heart which made Elinor really love her, declared her resolution of not stirring from Cleveland as long as Marianne remained ill, and of endeavouring, by her own attentive care, to supply to her the place of the mother she had taken her from; and Elinor found her on every occasion a most willing and active helpmate, desirous to share in all her fatigues, and often by her better experience in nursing, of material use.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)