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How to pronounce helpmeet in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms helpmate
Type of better half, married person, mate, partner, spouse

Examples of helpmeet

helpmeet
You might say of the Indiana Jones cycle that Indy's gal is, in the initial movie, his helpmeet.
From the thestate.com
It's that Daisy rarely comes into her own as more than the pliant emotional helpmeet to the Great Man.
From the dailyherald.com
Isabella led her own life, infuriating her husband by refusing to play the role of docile helpmeet.
From the boston.com
Married to a New York publisher 30 years her senior, Pippa Lee has dedicated herself to becoming the perfect helpmeet and wife.
From the independent.co.uk
It is your helpmeet and your enemy.
From the entertainment.time.com
Like today, many were also uncertain as to what to make of Heinz herself, who seemed anything but the appropriately supportive political helpmeet.
From the theatlantic.com
With her genius for enslaving dazzled men to a courtier's life of gallantry and self-abasement, she made him her confidant and helpmeet.
From the guardian.co.uk
In short, if sex had been the entire issue, Effie might have forgiven Ruskin his glaring sin of omission and settled down as just another glum Victorian helpmeet.
From the time.com
Though he is the ex-con and she his loyal helpmeet, she is often the dominant figure-driving their car, for instance, and patting his head as he rests on her shoulder.
From the time.com
More examples
  • Helpmate: a helpful partner
  • (Heb. 'ezer ke-negdo ; i.e., "a help as his counterpart" = a help suitable to him), a wife (Gen 2:18).