Adjacent Words

Ancillary definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

AN'CILLARY, a. [L. ancilla, a female servant.]
Pertaining to a maid servant, or female service; subservient as a maid servant.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other" [syn: accessory, adjunct, ancillary, adjuvant, appurtenant, auxiliary]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1667 1. subordinate, subsidiary <the main factory and its ancillary plants> 2. auxiliary, supplementary <the need for ancillary evidence> • ancillary noun

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ancillary An"cil*la*ry, a. [L. ancillaris, fr. ancilla a female servant.] Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary. The Convocation of York seems to have been always considered as inferior, and even ancillary, to the greater province. --Hallam.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(ancillaries) 1. The ancillary workers in an institution are the people such as cleaners and cooks whose work supports the main work of the institution. ...ancillary staff. ...ancillary services like cleaning. = auxiliary ADJ: ADJ n • Ancillary is also a noun. ...ancillaries who look after the children in the playground. N-COUNT 2. Ancillary means additional to something else. (FORMAL) = supplementary ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Helping, helpful, auxiliary, instrumental. 2. Subservient, subordinate, subsidiary.

Moby Thesaurus

accessory, accompanying, additional, adjuvant, another, appurtenant, assistant, assisting, attendant, attending, auxiliary, coincident, collateral, contributory, extra, farther, fostering, fresh, further, helping, incident, instrumental, ministerial, ministering, ministrant, more, new, nurtural, nutricial, other, plus, satellite, serving, spare, subservient, subsidiary, supernumerary, supplemental, supplementary, surplus, ulterior