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# helper

«helper» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who helps someone do a job** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a helper, helpers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A helper is a person who helps someone do a job. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helper/#m1)

2) In school, a helper can be a teaching assistant, a parent who helps, or a child given a job, like «milk helper». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helper/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and school, helpers set up the classroom, hand out books, or help on trips. In safety lessons «look for the helpers» — police officers, teachers, shop staff — means there are people you can go to if you are lost or scared. In stories little helpers, like Santa's elves, do work for others. Phrases: «a good helper», «classroom helper», «parent helper», «mother's little helper».

### examples

- Who wants to be today's helper? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helper/#x1)
- The parent helpers came on our school trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helper/#x2)
- She is a great helper in the kitchen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helper/#x3)
- If you get lost, look for a helper like a police officer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helper/#x4)
- Santa's helpers make the toys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helper/#x5)
- The helper gave out the pencils. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helper/#x6)
- Thanks for being such a good helper! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helper/#x7)
- Our class helper waters the plants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helper/#x8)
- He was a good friend of the king, and one of his strongest helpers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helper/#x9)

### note

Countable: helpers. Built from help + er (a person who does). Also «assistant». Safety: a safe helper when lost is someone in uniform, a shop worker at a till, or a parent with children.

### In the corpora

- [Good helpers, even good bots, always send you back to real people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/5/)
- [Noticing these helpers calmly, and checking them where it matters, is the grown-up way to live with them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/4/)
- [Many people already use AI as a helper at work, and knowing the basics yourself helps you check it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/24-future-hopes/10/)
- [Farmers have other helpers too: ladybirds that eat aphids and barn owls that hunt mice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food/5/)
- [When people forget these helpers, things go wrong, as in the 1930s Dust Bowl, when bare ploughed soil simply blew away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «helper» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helper/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.