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aide
[ eyd ]
noun
- an assistant or helper, especially a paid employee:
Years ago, my mom was a teacher’s aide in a kindergarten classroom.
During the war she worked as an aide in a field hospital, changing bedpans and cleaning floors.
- an assistant or advisor to a public figure, especially one who works for a person in public office:
He is a journalist and former White House aide.
The agency just called to say my mom's aide didn't show up this morning.
aide
/ ɪ /
noun
- an assistant
- social welfare an unqualified assistant to a professional welfare worker
- short for aide-de-camp
Confusables Note
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Pope Francis refused to heed advice to slow down in his final few years, preferring to "die with his boots on", according to a close aide.
US envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian President Vladimir Putin had "constructive" talks in Moscow on Friday lasting three hours, according to an aide of Putin's.
At least one former top aide to Hegseth has gone public with complaints about his leadership.
Instead, they were delivered in the middle of their meeting by a Bukele aide.
The four justices who dissented against Trump are women, so William Wolfe, former aide to Al Mohler, used it as evidence that women cannot be trusted with power.
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