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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer [syn: adjutant, aide, aide-de-camp]
2: someone who acts as assistant [syn: aide, auxiliary]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: short for aide-de-camp Date: 1777 a person who acts as an assistant; specifically a military officer who acts as an assistant to a superior officer

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 an aide-de-camp. 2 esp. US an assistant. 3 an unqualified assistant to a social worker. Etymology: abbr.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(aides) An aide is an assistant to someone who has an important job, especially in government or in the armed forces. ...a close aide to the Prime Minister. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

ADC, CO, OD, acolyte, adjutant, agent, aid, aide-de-camp, aider, ally, assistant, attendant, auxiliary, best man, brigadier, brigadier general, captain, chicken colonel, chief of staff, coadjutant, coadjutor, coadjutress, coadjutrix, cohort, colleague, colonel, commandant, commander, commander in chief, commanding officer, commissioned officer, company officer, comrade, deputy, exec, executive officer, field marshal, field officer, first lieutenant, five-star general, four-star general, general, general officer, generalissimo, girl Friday, help, helper, helpmate, helpmeet, jemadar, junior officer, lieutenant, lieutenant colonel, lieutenant general, major, major general, man Friday, marechal, marshal, officer, one-star general, orderly officer, paranymph, paraprofessional, partner, right hand, right-hand man, risaldar, second, senior officer, servant, shavetail, sideman, sirdar, staff officer, subahdar, subaltern, sublieutenant, supporting actor, supporting instrumentalist, the Old Man, the brass, three-star general, top brass, two-star general