Assistant

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /əˈsɪstÉ™nt/

Alternative forms

• assistaunt obsolete

Origin

From Middle French assistant, from assister.

Full definition of assistant

Adjective

1. Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.an assistant surgeon
2. Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
• BeattieGenius and learning ... are mutually and greatly assistant to each other.

Noun

1. (obsolete) Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.
• 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 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 ....
2. A person who assists or helps someone else.
3. (British) Sales assistant.
4. A software tool that provides assistance in some task.

Related terms

• assist
• assistance

Anagrams

• Satanists