| \HELP-meyt\ | noun
1. a companion and helper.
2. a spouse. | | Quotes | A confederate who foresees your conclusions and course of action is always dangerous, but one to whom each development comes as a perpetual surprise, and to whom the future is always a closed book, is, indeed an ideal helpmate.
-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier," The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes, 1927 | | Origin | | Helpmate entered English in the early 1700s from the Middle English construction helpmeet which was used in The Wycliffite Bible. | |
