Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- a companion and helper.
- a spouse.
- anything that aids or assists, especially regularly: This calculator is my constant helpmate.
noun
- a companion and helper, esp a wife
“companion,” 1715, altered from helpmeet, a ghost word, from the Biblical translation of Latin adjutorium simile sibi [Gen. ii:18] as “an help meet (i.e. fit) for him” (Hebrew ‘ezer keneghdo), which already by 1673 was being printed as help-meet and mistaken for one word.