aid
pronunciation
How to pronounce aid in British English:
UK [eɪd]
How to pronounce aid in American English:
US [eɪd]
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- Noun:
- a resource
- the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
- a gift of money to support a worthy person or cause
- the work of caring for or attending to someone or something
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- Verb:
- give help or assistance; be of service
- improve the condition of
Word Origin
- aid
- aid: [15] Aid comes ultimately from the same source as adjutant (which originally meant simply ‘assistant’). Latin juvāre became, with the addition of the prefix ad- ‘to’, adjuvāre ‘give help to’; from its past participle adjutus was formed a new verb, adjūtāre, denoting repeated action, and this passed into Old French as aïdier, the source of English aid.=> adjutant, jocund
- aid (n.)
- early 15c., "war-time tax," also "help, support, assistance," from Old French aide, earlier aiudha "aid, help, assistance" (9c.), from Late Latin adjuta, from fem. past participle of Latin adiuvare (past participle adiutus) "to give help to," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + iuvare "to help" (see adjutant). Meaning "thing by which assistance is given" is recorded from c. 1600. Meaning "material help given by one country to another" is from 1940.
- aid (v.)
- c. 1400, "to assist, help," from Old French aidier "help, assistance," from Latin adiutare, frequentative of adiuvare (past participle adiutus) "give help to" (see adjutant). Related: Aided; aiding.
Example
- 1. Aid flows are already rising .
- 2. The second reason is aid .
- 3. Aid policy is changing too .
- 4. Aid is also poorly co-ordinated .
- 5. Musharraf oils his dictatorship with generous american aid .