Definition:
- (a.) Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.
- (n.) A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.
- (n.) Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force.
- (sing.) 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.
- (sing.) A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulae.
Compare auxiliary with other words:
additionally vs. auxiliary
auxiliarly vs. auxiliary
auxiliary vs. relief
auxiliary vs. incidental
affiliated vs. auxiliary
auxiliary vs. auxiliatory
adminicle vs. auxiliary
annex vs. auxiliary
auxiliary vs. supplementary
auxiliar vs. auxiliary
accessories vs. auxiliary
auxiliary vs. modal
auxiliary vs. peripheral
ancillary vs. auxiliary
auxiliary vs. sidetrack
assistant vs. auxiliary
augment vs. auxiliary
auctioneer vs. auxiliary
auction vs. auxiliary
auxiliary vs. vessel
auxiliary vs. group
auxiliary vs. person
auxiliary vs. motorsailer
auxiliary vs. engine
auxiliary vs. sail
auxiliary vs. circumstance
auxiliary vs. exceptional
auxiliary vs. reserve
auxiliary vs. support
assistance vs. auxiliary
adjuvant vs. auxiliary
auxiliary vs. secondary
auxiliary vs. subsidiary
auxiliary vs. axillary
ally vs. auxiliary
auxiliary vs. discharge
augmentation vs. auxiliary
auxiliary vs. donkey
auxiliary vs. would
accessory vs. auxiliary
accessorily vs. auxiliary