Uk English Meaning of auxiliary

auxiliary

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Definitions and Meaning of auxiliary in English

Wordnet

auxiliary (n)

someone who acts as assistant

Wordnet

auxiliary (s)

functioning in a supporting capacity

furnishing added support

Webster

auxiliary (a.)

Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.

Webster

auxiliary (n.)

A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.

Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force.

Webster

auxiliary (sing.)

A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs; -- called, also, an auxiliary verb; as, have, be, may, can, do, must, shall, and will, in English; etre and avoir, in French; avere and essere, in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish.

A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulae.

FAQs About the word auxiliary

auxiliary

someone who acts as assistant, functioning in a supporting capacity, furnishing added supportConferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as

Accessory,additional,makeshift,peripheral,supplemental,supplementary,accessorial,added,appurtenant,complementary

basic,chief,main,primary,head teacher, principal,essential,fundamental,integral,necessary,prime

auxiliarly => auxiliary , auxiliaries => auxiliaries, auxiliar => Auxiliary, auxetophone => Auxetophone, auxetic => auxetic,