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noun

Assistant n.

One who, or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a means of help. "Four assistants who his labor share." "Rhymes merely as assistants to memory."

An attendant; one who is present.

adjective

Assistant adj.

Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary. "Genius and learning... are mutually and greatly assistant to each other."

(Mil.) Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon. (U.S.) Note: In the English army it designates the third grade in any particular branch of the staff.

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Etymology of 'Assistant'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Assistant" Quotes from Famous Books

... met immediately after the adjournment of the caucus and elected Colonel Foreman of the Thirty-third Division, Chairman; Lt. Colonel George A. White, Forty-first Division, Secretary and Major R.C. Patterson, Paris Command, Assistant Secretary. Lt. Col. White, Col. Wood, Major R.C. Patterson, and Lt. L.R. Farrell were elected permanent members at large ...

— The Story of The American Legion • George Seay Wheat

... the ladder with his bundle of bedding, deposited it in the room my uncle pointed out, and forthwith commenced unlashing it; and knowing that he would prove a better assistant to the dame than Oliver and I should, we accompanied my uncle to what he called his cooking-shed, at the back of the house. Here he had brought water from a spring in the forest, and had made a ...

— In the Eastern Seas • W.H.G. Kingston

... shooting in the Central Provinces, accompanied by my lamented friend the late Mr. Berry, who was at that time Assistant-Commissioner at Jubbulpur. ...

— Wild Beasts and their Ways • Sir Samuel W. Baker

... father were shadowing a pork-butcher's shop, pocketing the sausages for which their family has such a fatal weakness, and so when the butcher engaged Joey as his assistant there was soon not a sausage left. However, this did not matter, for there was a box rather like an ice-cream machine, and you put chunks of pork in at one end and turned a handle and they came out as sausages at the other end. ...

— The Little White Bird - or Adventures In Kensington Gardens • J. M. Barrie

... impulse to the cultivation of natural science in Ceylon, was communicated by Dr. Davy when connected with the medical staff[1] of the army from 1816 to 1820, and his example stimulated some of the assistant-surgeons of Her Majesty's forces to make collections in illustration of the productions of the colony. Of these the late Dr. Kinnis was one of the most energetic and successful. He was seconded by Dr. Templeton of the Royal Artillery, who engaged assiduously in ...

— Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon • J. Emerson Tennent

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