Definition/Meaning of help

• English - Noun: help (usually uncountable, plural helps) (uncountable, usually) Action given to provide assistance ; aid . I need some help with my homework. (uncountable, usually) Something or someone which provides assistance with a task. He was a great help to me when I was moving house. (uncountable, usually) Documentation provided with computer software that could be accessed using the computer. I can't…
• English - Verb: help (third-person singular simple present helps, present participle helping, simple past helped or (archaic) holp, past participle helped or (archaic) holp or (archaic) holpen) (transitive) To provide assistance to (someone or something). He helped his grandfather cook breakfast. 2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76: Risk is everywhere.[…]For…
• English - Interjection: help ! A cry of distress or an urgent request for assistance. — Take that, you scoundrel.— Help ! Robin, help ! (Internet) A way to signal uncontrollable laughter; implying the risk of dying of laughter and needing assistance. helpppp that's too funny, did she rlly say that?
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. From Middle English help , from Old English help (“help, aid, assistance, relief”), from Proto-Germanic *helpō (“help”), *hilpiz, *hulpiz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelb-, *ḱelp- (“to help”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hälpe (“help”), West Frisian help (“help”), Cimbrian hölfe (“help”), Dutch hulp (“help”), German Hilfe (“help, aid, assistance”), Luxembourgish Hëllef (“help”),…
• English - Pronunciation: (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA: /hɛlp/ IPA: [hɛo̯p] ~ [hɛʊ̯p] , [he̝o̯p] ~ [he̝ʊ̯p] , /hɛp/ (Australia, New Zealand) IPA: /help/ Rhymes: -ɛlp