help

Meaning

Noun

1. (uncountable, usually) Action given to provide assistance; aid.
2. (uncountable, usually) Something or someone which provides assistance with a task.
3. (uncountable, usually) Documentation provided with computer software that could be accessed using the computer.
4. (countable, usually) A study aid.
5. (uncountable, usually) One or more people employed to help in the maintenance of a house or the operation of a farm or enterprise.
6. (uncountable, usually) Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social support or remedial training.

Verb

1. (transitive) To provide assistance to (someone or something).
2. (transitive) To assist (a person) in getting something, especially food or drink at table; used with to.
3. (transitive) To contribute in some way to.
4. (intransitive) To provide assistance.
5. (transitive) To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with can.
6. (Hong-Kong, Singapore) To do something on the behalf of someone.
7. (Singapore, Singlish, imperative) To assist or sympathize with (the speaker); used to express displeasure, disappointment or exasperation.

Intj

1. A cry of distress or an urgent request for assistance.
2. (Internet) A way to signal uncontrollable laughter; implying the risk of dying of laughter and needing assistance.

Synonyms

aid

assist

assistance

support

relieve

succor

succour

relief

assistant

rescue

avail

benefit

favour

promote

service

helper

helping

abet

serve

save

protect

hand

✋

facilitate

sustain

lend a hand

accomodate

help out

favor

cooperate

lift

helpmate

remedy

protection

accommodate

patronage

shelter

auxiliary

advance

salvation

maintain

help oneself

kindness

befriend

further

refuge

guide

backing

aide

prop up

ministration

Translations

aider

Hilfe

aide

ayudar

helfen

aiuto

aiutare

ayuda

ajudar

helpen

hulp

Beistand

ajuda

βοηθώ

βοήθεια

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hɛlp/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: help

Inherited from Old English: help

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: Hälpe

Cognate with Western Frisian: help

Cognate with Dutch: hulp

Cognate with Low German: Hülp

Cognate with German: Hilfe

Cognate with Danish: hjælp

Cognate with Swedish: hjälp

Cognate with Norwegian: hjelp

Inherited from Middle English: helpen

Inherited from Old English: helpan

Cognate with Western Frisian: helpe

Cognate with Dutch: helpen

Cognate with Low German: helpen

Cognate with German: helfen

Cognate with Danish: hjælpe

Cognate with Norwegian: hjelpe

Cognate with Lithuanian: šelpti

In summary

From Middle English help, from Old English help (“help, aid, assistance, relief”), from Proto-Germanic *helpō (“help”), *hilpiz, *hulpiz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelb-, *ḱelp- (“to help”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hälpe (“help”), West Frisian help (“help”), Cimbrian hölfe (“help”), Dutch hulp (“help”), German Hilfe (“help, aid, assistance”), Luxembourgish Hëllef (“help”), Mòcheno hilf (“help”), Vilamovian hyłf (“help”), Yiddish הילף (hilf, “help”), Danish hjælp (“help”), Faroese, Icelandic hjálp (“help”), Norwegian Bokmål hjelp (“help”), Norwegian Nynorsk hjelp, hjølp (“help”), Swedish hjälp (“help”).

Sentences

Despite this she would bring back home people who needed help .

I will ask Liam if he can help me look .

The bridge was constructed with the help of the Japanese Government .

They shouted consolation and promises and went off back to the town again to get help .

I can not help but feel that this topic is hopelessly outdated .

The bank prospered with help from the railroad .