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# assistant

noun (an assistant, assistants); adjective (assistant — assistant head teacher)

«assistant» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A person whose job is to help someone else do their work. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistant/#m1)
2. A shop assistant is a person who serves customers in a shop. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistant/#m2)
3. A computer program that helps you, such as a voice assistant. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistant/#m3)

### In the lessons

In school, a teaching assistant helps the teacher and the pupils. In shops, you ask a shop assistant for help. In technology, a digital assistant answers questions; be careful what personal information you tell it. Phrases: teaching assistant, shop assistant, personal assistant, voice assistant, assistant coach.

### Examples

- Our teaching assistant helps me with reading. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistant/#x1)
- Ask the shop assistant where the shoes are. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistant/#x2)
- The doctor's assistant called my name. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistant/#x3)
- The assistant coach set up the cones. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistant/#x4)
- A voice assistant can tell you the weather. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistant/#x5)
- The magician's assistant held the hat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistant/#x6)
- As they sailed on, they came by chance to the place where the boatman's assistant lived, at a little distance from the bank of the river. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistant/#x7)

### Note

Use "an": an assistant. Countable. Spelling: double s, and it ends "-ant", not "-ent". The verb is "assist" (help) and the noun for help is "assistance".

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «assistant» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistant/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«assistant» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/assistant.html) on Mova free.