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aide

  • /eɪd/ UK

Sounds like aid · Rhymes with -eɪd

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French aide ("aid; assistant", as in aide-de-camp (“field assistant”)). More at aid.

noun aides · aid

  1. An assistant. The aide rides, along with the president's physician, in the “control car,” third in line in the motorcade.
  2. An officer who acts as assistant to a more senior one; an aide-de-camp.

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