英和和英

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈeɪdə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈeɪdɚ/
• 韻: -eɪdə(ɹ)
• 異形同音異義語: (non-rhotic) Ada, Adur

名詞

aider (plural aiders)

1. A person who aids or assists.
   • 1548, Edward Hall, “The trobleous season of Kyng Henry the sixt, The .xv. yere”, in Hall’s Chronicle‎, London: Richard Grafton:

     The capitaines of the toune seyng theire pillers borken, and their chief ayders discomfited, rendered the toune to the duke of Somerset,

   • 1589, George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie‎, London: Richard Field, Book 3, Chapter 15, p. 254:

     […] arte is neither an aider nor a surmounter, but onely a bare immitatour of natures works, following and counterfeyting her actions and effects […]

   • 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, “Of the Internal Economy of Dotheboys Hall”, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 73:

     […] being there as an assistant, he actually seemed—[…]—to be the aider and abettor of a system which filled him with honest disgust and indignation, […]

   • 1898, Paul Laurence Dunbar, chapter III, in The Uncalled: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 23:

     The woman in question had, as she said, been a close friend of Margaret’s, and, as such, an aider in her habits of intemperance.

2. (climbing) A mountaineer's stirrup or étrier.

   As I was switching my feet in my aiders, the hook popped.

使用する際の注意点

Often used in the phrase aider and abettor; see also aid and abet.

関連する語

• aide
• first-aider

アナグラム

• Dirae, adire, aired, deair, idear, irade, redia