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[syn: helpmate, helpmeet]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Helpmeet \Help"meet`\, n. [See Helpmate.]
A wife; a helpmate.
[1913 Webster]
The Lord God created Adam, . . . and afterwards, on his
finding the want of a helpmeet, caused him to sleep,
and took one of his ribs and thence made woman. --J. H.
Newman.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
helpmeet
n 1: a helpful partner [syn: helpmate, helpmeet]
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary:
Help-meet
(Heb. 'ezer ke-negdo; i.e., "a help as his counterpart" = a help
suitable to him), a wife (Gen. 2:18-20).