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Meaning of 'auxiliary' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Auxiliary [ a.]
- Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.
2 . 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.
3 . 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.

Meaning of 'auxiliary' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . auxiliary [ s]
Meaning (1):
- furnishing added support
Example in sentence:
  • an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism;
  • an ancillary pump;
  • The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other
Meaning (2):
- functioning in a supporting capacity
Example in sentence:
  • the main library and its auxiliary branches

Nearby Words:

auxanometer auxesis auxetic auxiliar auxiliaries auxiliarly auxiliatory

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