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aide

noun
/eɪd/UK

Etymology

Borrowed from French aide ("aid; assistant", as in aide-de-camp (“field assistant”)). More at aid.

  1. borrowed from aide

Definitions

  1. An assistant.

    • The aide rides, along with the president's physician, in the “control car,” third in line in the motorcade.
    • Weiner and his aides dismissed such talk as idle political insiderism […]

  2. An officer who acts as assistant to a more senior one

    An officer who acts as assistant to a more senior one; an aide-de-camp.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at aide. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01aide02assistant03auxiliary04assistance05assisting06helpful07aid08helper

A definitional loop anchored at aide. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at aide

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA