Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Giving assistance or support; helping.
- adj. Acting as a subsidiary; supplementary: the main library and its auxiliary branches.
- adj. Held in or used as a reserve: auxiliary troops; an auxiliary power generator.
- adj. Nautical Equipped with a motor as well as sails.
- adj. Grammar Of, relating to, or being an auxiliary verb.
- n. An individual or group that assists or functions in a supporting capacity: a volunteers' auxiliary at a hospital.
- n. A member of a foreign body of troops serving a country in war.
- n. Grammar An auxiliary verb.
- n. Nautical A sailing vessel equipped with a motor.
- n. Nautical A vessel, such as a supply ship or a tug, that is designed for and used in instances and services other than combat.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Helping; aiding; assisting; giving support or succor; hence, subsidiary; additional: as, auxiliary troops; auxiliary engines.
- n. A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action, enterprise, or undertaking; an aid of any kind.
- n. Specifically—2. plural Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war.
- n. In grammar, a verb used in forming, with the infinitive and participles of other verbs, phrases having the value of, or a value analogous to that of, modes and tenses: thus, I do love, I have loved, I shall love, I am loved.
- n. In mathematics, an auxiliary quantity (which see, under I.).
- n. In the nomenclature of the sutural inflections in the ammonoid cephalopods, a lobe or saddle lying between the umbilical curve or line of involution and the second lateral lobe.
- n. In mech., any machine except the principal one: a term applied specifically to the feed-pumps, fire-pumps, etc., in power plants.
- n. A vessel fitted with power other than sails for propulsion but depending ordinarily on the latter.
Wiktionary
- adj. Helping; giving assistance or support.
- adj. Supplementary or subsidiary.
- adj. Held in reserve for exceptional circumstances.
- adj. nautical Of a ship, having both sails and an engine.
- adj. grammar Relating to an auxiliary verb.
- n. A person or group that acts in an auxiliary manner.
- n. A sailing vessel equipped with an engine.
- n. grammar An auxiliary verb.
- n. A marching band colorguard.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as
auxiliary troops. - n. A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.
- n. (Mil.) Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force.
- n. (Gram.) A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs; -- called, also, an
auxiliary verb - n. (Math.) A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulæ.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. furnishing added support
- adj. functioning in a supporting capacity
- n. someone who acts as assistant
Etymologies
- From Latin auxiliarius, equiv. to auxiliaris ("helping, aiding"), from auxilium ("help, aid"), from augere ("to increase"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Latin auxiliārius, from auxilium, help; see aug- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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“Though the terms auxiliary, suffragan, and coadjutor are used indiscriminately, yet there is a difference.”
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