| helper | | |
| n. (person) | 1. assistant, help, helper, supporter | a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose.; "my invaluable assistant"; "they hired additional help to finish the work" |
| ~ coadjutor | an assistant to a bishop. |
| ~ worker | a person who works at a specific occupation.; "he is a good worker" |
| ~ accomplice, confederate | a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan). |
| ~ auxiliary, aide | someone who acts as assistant. |
| ~ attendant, attender, tender | someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another. |
| ~ bat boy | (baseball) a boy who takes care of bats and other baseball equipment. |
| ~ dental assistant | an assistant to a dentist. |
| ~ deputy, lieutenant | an assistant with power to act when his superior is absent. |
| ~ actor's assistant, dresser | a wardrobe assistant for an actor. |
| ~ event planner | someone who plans social events as a profession (usually for government or corporate officials). |
| ~ facilitator | someone who makes progress easier. |
| ~ flower girl | a young girl who carries flowers in a (wedding) procession. |
| ~ girl friday | a female assistant who has a range of duties. |
| ~ enforcer, hatchet man | one whose job it is to execute unpleasant tasks for a superior. |
| ~ cat's-paw, pawn, instrument | a person used by another to gain an end. |
| ~ birthing coach, doula, labor coach, monitrice | an assistant (often the father of the soon-to-be-born child) who provides support for a woman in labor by encouraging her to use techniques learned in childbirth-preparation classes. |
| ~ underboss | an assistant or second-in-command to a chief (especially in a crime syndicate). |
| ~ fashion model, manakin, mannequin, manikin, mannikin, model | a woman who wears clothes to display fashions.; "she was too fat to be a mannequin" |
| ~ poser, model | a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor.; "the president didn't have time to be a model so the artist worked from photos" |
| ~ paraprofessional | a trained worker who is not a member of a profession but who assists a professional. |
| ~ powder monkey | someone who carries explosives (as from the magazine to the guns on board a warship). |
| ~ prompter, theater prompter | someone who assists a performer by providing the next words of a forgotten speech. |
| ~ chief assistant, man friday, right-hand man | the most helpful assistant. |
| ~ secretarial assistant, secretary | an assistant who handles correspondence and clerical work for a boss or an organization. |
| ~ sidesman | (Church of England) an assistant to the churchwarden; collects offerings of money in the church. |
| ~ subordinate, subsidiary, underling, foot soldier | an assistant subject to the authority or control of another. |
| ~ water boy, waterer | an assistant who supplies drinking water. |
| ~ whipper-in | huntsman's assistant in managing the hounds. |
| n. (person) | 2. benefactor, helper | a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help). |
| ~ benefactress | a woman benefactor. |
| ~ bondswoman, bondsman | someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else. |
| ~ bestower, conferrer, donor, giver, presenter | person who makes a gift of property. |
| ~ donor | (medicine) someone who gives blood or tissue or an organ to be used in another person (the host). |
| ~ fairy godmother | a generous benefactor. |
| ~ good person | a person who is good to other people. |
| ~ good samaritan | a person who voluntarily offers help or sympathy in times of trouble. |
| ~ do-gooder, humanitarian, improver | someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms. |
| ~ liberator | someone who releases people from captivity or bondage. |
| ~ accommodator, obliger | someone who performs a service or does a favor. |
| ~ offerer, offeror | someone who presents something to another for acceptance or rejection. |
| ~ sponsor, supporter, patron | someone who supports or champions something. |
| ~ provider | someone who provides the means for subsistence. |
| ~ rescuer, deliverer, savior, saviour | a person who rescues you from harm or danger. |
| ~ sparer | someone who refrains from injuring or destroying. |
| ~ uncle | a source of help and advice and encouragement.; "he played uncle to lonely students" |
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