Helpmates

Word HELPMATES
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Definitions and meanings of "Helpmates"

What do we mean by helpmates?

A person who supplies help or companionship.

A wife or spouse.

A recreational problem in chess in which both sides cooperate to achieve a specific goal.

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The word "helpmates" in example sentences

Men were the doers of God's will; women were everybody's "helpmates," but never their leaders. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sarah Brooks Sundberg has argued that the substantial contributions of prairie farm women as homemakers, home manufacturers, field hands, wage earners, and teachers was understated by the persistent image of "helpmates" in emigrant promotional literature in the late nineteenth century. ❋ Unknown (2005)

We are reminded of Goethe's words, when he said: "Say yes ... (for) the moment you do, then mountains move, and helpmates arrive from the most unimaginable places." ❋ Dr. Cara Barker (2010)

That the war led to a bloody, twelve-year occupation and Iraq-style insurgency, which ended only when the U.S. military yielded to the insurgents, was likely something Obama and helpmates had not thought through even by 2008. ❋ Jack Cashill (2011)

After ten years of research I have learned confirmed that women have been treated as less than equal "helpmates", even chattel for thousands of years by patriarchies and misogynists apparently not needing an excuse. ❋ Melinda J. Rising (2011)

I do agree with you that reinforcing the necessity of women being forced into the roles of nurses and helpmates takes us all a big step backwards. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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