Definition of Aid

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Definition of Aid

Aid

To support, either by furnishing strength or means in cooperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist.

Help; succor; assistance; relief.

The person or thing that promotes or helps in something done; a helper; an assistant.

A subsidy granted to the king by Parliament; also, an exchequer loan.

A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his lord on special occasions.

An aid-de-camp, so called by abbreviation; as, a general's aid.

Related Definitions:

Abbreviation, Aid, Aid-De-Camp, Also, An, As, Assist, Assistance, Assistant, By, Called, Cooperation, Done, Effect, Either, Exchequer, Evil, Furnishing, General, Granted, Help, Helper, His, In, King, Loan, Lord, On, Or, Paid, Parliament, Pecuniary, Person, Prevent, Purpose, Relief, Remove, So, Something, Special, Strength, Subsidy, Succor, Support, That, The, Thing, To, Tribute, Vassal

Aid Quotations

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
Will Rogers

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Aristotle

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
Henry David Thoreau

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
James Madison

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.
Charles Spurgeon

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.
Robert Collier

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.
Paul Harvey

Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!
Lyndon B. Johnson

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
Edmund Burke

Aid Translations

aid in Afrikaans is help, assistent, hulp
aid in Dutch is assistent, famulus, helper, hulp
aid in Finnish is auttaa
aid in French is aider, aide, assister, secourir
aid in German is helfen, Beihilfe, Hilfsmittel, Hilfe
aid in Italian is aiutare
aid in Latin is adiuvo, proficio, auxilium, iuvo, suffragium
aid in Norwegian is hjelpe
aid in Portuguese is ajudar
aid in Spanish is ayudar, acorro

Quotes