Dictionary Entry
auxiliary
auxiliary is a 9-letter English word with 8 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 20 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.
- 2noun
A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.
- 3noun
Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force.
- 4sing
A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs; -- called, also, an auxiliary verb; as, have, be, may, can, do, must, shall, and will, in English; etre and avoir, in French; avere and essere, in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish.
- 5sing
A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulae.
- 6noun
someone who acts as assistant
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- 7adjective
functioning in a supporting capacity
"the main library and its auxiliary branches"
- 8adjective
furnishing added support
"an ancillary pump"
"an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"
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