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Noun
/ād/,
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aides, plural;
  1. An assistant to an important person, esp. to a political leader
    • - a presidential aide

  1. adjutant: an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer
  2. (aides) Pluto: (Greek mythology) the god of the underworld in ancient mythology; brother of Zeus and husband of Persephone
  3. Aide was the Basque numenistic deity of the air. She could manifest herself in both good (gentle breeze) and evil (storm wind) forms.
  4. The Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (AIDE) was initially developed as a free replacement for Tripwire licensed under the GPL.
  5. AIDES is a French community-based non-profit organisation that was founded in 1984 by Daniel Defert following the death of his lifelong companion Michel Foucault. The name is a word play on aides ((several) helps in French) and AIDS.
  6. (Aides (skipper)) Aides is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
  7. aide-de-camp (ADC), being an assistant given the opportunity to understudy a senior commander; also called "braider" as a result of the distinctive aiguillette or shoulder CORD worn by such AIDEs, being the OFFICER equivalent of HOUSE MOUSE. ...
  8. a minor vassal, representative of a vocational class or group.