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Webster 1913 Edition

Assistant

As-sist′ant

Adj.

[Cf. F.

assistant

, p. pr. of

assister

Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.

Genius and learning . . . are mutually and greatly

assistant

to each other.

Beattie.

(Mil.)

Of the second grade in the staff of the army;

as, an

assistant surgeon

[U.S.]

☞ In the English army it designates the third grade in any particular branch of the staff.

Farrow.

As-sist′ant

Noun.

One who, or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a means of help.

Four

assistants

who his labor share.

Pope.

Rhymes merely as

assistants

to memory.

Mrs. Chapone.

An attendant; one who is present.

Dryden.

Webster 1828 Edition

Assistant

ASSIST'ANT

Adj.

Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.

ASSIST'ANT

Noun.

One who aids, or who contributes his strength or other means to further the designs of welfare of another; an auxiliary.

Definition 2024

assistant

English

Alternative forms

assistaunt (obsolete)

Adjective

assistant ‎(not comparable) (attributive)

Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.
an assistant surgeon
Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
- Beattie
  Genius and learning […] are mutually and greatly assistant to each other.

Translations

having a subordinate or auxiliary position

Bulgarian: спомагателен (bg) ‎(spomagatelen)
Catalan: auxiliar (ca)
Finnish: apu-, vara-, avustava (fi), apulais-
German: helfend (de), hilfreich (de)
Greek: βοηθητικός (el) m ‎(voithitikós)
Hungarian: helyettes (hu), segéd (hu)
Icelandic: aðstoðar- (is)
Kurdish: asîstan (ku)
Ladino:
Roman: ayudador m

Norwegian:
Bokmål: assisterende
Portuguese: assistente (pt)
Romanian: asistent (ro)
Russian: вспомога́тельный (ru) ‎(vspomogátelʹnyj)
Spanish: ayudante (es)
Swahili: naibu (sw)
Swedish: assisterande (1,2), stödjande (2), hjälpande (2)
Turkish: asistan (tr)

Noun

assistant ‎(plural assistants)

(obsolete) Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.3:
  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.

Translations

person who assists

Albanian: asistent (sq) m, asistente (sq) f
Arabic: مُسَاعِد (ar) m ‎(musāʿid)
Armenian: օգնական (hy) ‎(ōgnakan)
Asturian: asistente m, f
Bengali:
Bulgarian: помо́щник (bg) m ‎(pomóštnik), асисте́нт (bg) m ‎(asistént)
Burmese: အကူ (my) ‎(a.ku)
Catalan: assistente m, f
Chinese:

Cantonese: 助理 ‎(zo⁶ lei⁵), 助手 ‎(zo⁶ sau²)

Mandarin: 助理 (zh) ‎(zhùlǐ), 助手 (zh) ‎(zhùshǒu)

Min Nan: 助理 (zh-min-nan) ‎(chō͘-lí), 助手 ‎(chō͘-chhiú)
Czech: asistent m, asistentka f, pomocník (cs) m, pomocnice (cs) f
Dutch: assistent (nl) m
Esperanto: asistanto
Finnish: assistentti (fi), apulainen (fi), avustaja (fi), aputyöntekijä
French: assistant (fr) m, aide (fr) f, auxiliaire (fr) m, f
Galician: asistente m
Georgian: ასისტენტი ‎(asisṭenṭi)
German: Assistent (de) m, Mitarbeiter (de) m, Helfer (de) m
Greek: βοηθός (el) m, f ‎(voithós)
Hebrew:
Hindi:
Hungarian: asszisztens (hu), segéd (hu)
Icelandic: aðstoðarmaður m
Ido: helpanto (io), helpero (io)
Indonesian:
Irish: cúntóir
Italian: assistente (it) m, f

Japanese: 助手 (ja) ‎(じょしゅ, joshu)
Norman: assistant m
Khmer: អ្នកជំនួយ ‎(neak cumnuəy)
Korean: 조수 (ko) ‎(josu)
Kurdish:
Sorani: شاگرد (ku)
Latin: optiō m
Latvian: asistents m, asistente f, palīgs m, palīdze f
Lithuanian:
Malay: pembantu
Maltese:
Maori: taituarā, kaiāwhina
Mongolian:
Norwegian:

Bokmål: assistent (no) m, medhjelper m

Nynorsk: assistent m, medhjelpar m
Persian: دستیار (fa) ‎(dastyâr), آسیستان (fa) ‎(âsistân)
Polish: asystent (pl) m
Portuguese: assistente (pt) m, f, ajudante (pt) m, f
Romanian: asistent (ro) m, asistentă (ro) f, ajutor (ro) m, ajutoare (ro) f
Russian: ассисте́нт (ru) m ‎(assistént), ассисте́нтка (ru) f ‎(assisténtka), помо́щник (ru) m ‎(pomóščnik), помо́щница (ru) f ‎(pomóščnica)
Spanish: ayudante (es) m, asistente (es) m, f
Swahili: msaidizi (sw)
Swedish: assistent (sv)
Thai: ผู้ช่วย ‎(pûu chûay)
Turkish: yardımcı (tr), asistan (tr), muavin (tr)
Volapük: yufan (vo)

software

Chinese:

Cantonese: 助手 ‎(zo⁶ sau²), 小幫手, 小帮手 ‎(siu² bong¹ sau²)

Mandarin: 助手 (zh) ‎(zhùshǒu), 小幫手, 小帮手 ‎(xiǎo bāngshǒu)

Dutch: assistent (nl) m
German: Assistent (de) m
Romanian: asistent (ro) m

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Anagrams

Satanists

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /a.sis.tɑ̃/

Verb

assistant

present participle of assister

Latin

Verb

assistant

third-person plural present active subjunctive of assistō

Middle French

Verb

assistant ‎(plural assistans)

present participle of assister

Noun

assistant m (plural assistans)

assistant (person who is present)

Norman

Etymology

Borrowing from English assistant.

Noun

assistant m ‎(plural assistants, feminine assistante)

(Jersey) assistant

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Webster 1913 Edition

Assistant

As-sist′ant

As-sist′ant

Webster 1828 Edition

Assistant

ASSIST'ANT

ASSIST'ANT

Definition 2024

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assistant

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