aid: Meaning and Definition of

aid

1. to provide support for or relief to; help: to aid the homeless victims of the fire.
2. to promote the progress or accomplishment of; facilitate.

1. to give help or assistance.

1. help or support; assistance.
2. a person or thing that aids or furnishes assistance; helper; auxiliary.
1. Also callednatural aids.the means by which a rider communicates with and controls a horse, as the hands, legs, voice, and shifts in weight.
2. Also calledartificial aids.the devices by means of which a rider increases control of a horse, as spurs, whip, and martingale.
4. aide-de-camp.
5. See
6. a payment made by feudal vassals to their lord on special occasions.
7. (after 1066) any of several revenues received by a king in the Middle Ages from his vassals and other subjects, limited by the Magna Charta to specified occasions.

AID

1. the division of the United States International Development Cooperation Agency that coordinates the various foreign aid programs with U.S. foreign policy: established in 1961.

AID

1. American Institute of Decorators.
2. American Institute of Interior Designers.
3. artificial insemination donor.