Antonyms for helpers


Grammar : Noun
Spell : hel-per
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɛl pər


Definition of helpers

Origin :
  • mid-14c., agent noun from help (v.). Helpestre "a female helper" is recorded from c.1400. The Old English agent noun was helpend.
  • noun assistant
Example sentences :
  • Murderers had friends, relations, helpers—they had knowledge.
  • Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
  • Do your helpers often put belt dressing on while the belt is running?
  • Extract from : « Sure Pop and the Safety Scouts » by Roy Rutherford Bailey
  • It is the people whom we do not know that are often our helpers.
  • Extract from : « A Singer from the Sea » by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
  • Near the stove at the back the undertaker's helpers were finishing their lunch.
  • Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
  • I say, "we," for I believe that teachers and helpers have prayed with me for it.
  • Extract from : « The American Missionary--Volume 39, No. 02, February, 1885 » by Various
  • Not even the most favoured of her helpers was allowed to touch a garment.
  • Extract from : « The Island Mystery » by George A. Birmingham
  • Helpers at the wheels and new hands on the lines were all to no purpose.
  • Extract from : « War from the Inside » by Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman) Hitchcock
  • And this was the place where some of the helpers had withdrawn to die.
  • Extract from : « Heart of Darkness » by Joseph Conrad
  • The helpers dislodged other beams and finished the lives they had meant to save.
  • Extract from : « In a Little Town » by Rupert Hughes
  • There is going to be greater need every day, not for helpers, but for trained workers.
  • Extract from : « 'Smiles' » by Eliot H. Robinson

Synonyms for helpers

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