Assistant

As·sist·ant

Assistant

a.
  1. Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
    Genius and learning . . . are mutually and greatly assistant to each other.
    — Beattie.
  2. Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon. (Mil.) [U.S.]

Assistant

n.
  1. One who, or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a means of help.
    Four assistants who his labor share.
    Rhymes merely as assistants to memory.
    — Mrs. Chapone.
  2. An attendant; one who is present.