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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
AIDS /eɪdz/USA pronunciation   n. [uncountable]
  1. Pathologyan acronym from acquired immune deficiency syndrome, a disease of the immune system that makes the victim less able to resist infection, cancer, and neurological disorders.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
AIDS  (ādz),USA pronunciation n. [Pathol.]
  1. Pathologya disease of the immune system characterized by increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections, as pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and candidiasis, to certain cancers, as Kaposi's sarcoma, and to neurological disorders: caused by a retrovirus and transmitted chiefly through blood or blood products that enter the body's bloodstream, esp. by sexual contact or contaminated hypodermic needles. Cf. AIDS virus.
  • a(cquired) i(mmune) d(eficiency) s(yndrome) 1982

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
AIDS, Aids /eɪdz/ n acronym for
  1. acquired immune (or immuno-)deficiency syndrome: a condition, caused by a virus, in which certain white blood cells (lymphocytes) are destroyed, resulting in loss of the body's ability to protect itself against disease. AIDS is transmitted by sexual intercourse, through infected blood and blood products, and through the placenta
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
aid /eɪd/USA pronunciation   v. 
  1. to provide support (for) or relief (to);
    help: [~ + object]accused of aiding the enemy.[~ + in + object]They aided in the development of the country.
  2. [~ + object] to promote the progress of;
    facilitate: The sleeping pill will aid your sleep.

n. 
  1. help or support;
    assistance:[uncountable]financial aid to the country.
  2. a person or thing that aids or furnishes assistance:[countable]an aid to digestion.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
aid  (ād),USA pronunciation v.t. 
  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.

v.i. 
  1. to give help or assistance.

n. 
  1. help or support;
    assistance.
  2. a person or thing that aids or furnishes assistance;
    helper;
    auxiliary.
  3. Sport aids, [Manège.]
    • Also called natural aids. the means by which a rider communicates with and controls a horse, as the hands, legs, voice, and shifts in weight.
    • Also called artificial aids. the devices by means of which a rider increases control of a horse, as spurs, whip, and martingale.
  4. Militaryaide-de-camp.
  5. GovernmentSee foreign aid. 
  6. World Historya payment made by feudal vassals to their lord on special occasions.
  7. World History[Eng. Hist.](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.
  • Latin, as above
  • Anglo-French, Old French aid(i)er
  • Latin adjūtāre to help (frequentative of adjuvāre), equivalent. to ad- ad- + -jū- help + -t- frequentative suffix + -āre infinitive suffix; (verb, verbal)
  • Anglo-French, Old French aide, noun, nominal derivative of aid(i)er
  • (noun, nominal) late Middle English ayde 1375–1425
aid′er, n. 
aid′ful, adj. 
aid′less, adj. 
    1. See help. 2. abet, back, foster, advance. 4. succor; relief; subsidy, grant.
    2. hinder, frustrate.
    Although the nouns aid and aide both have among their meanings "an assisting person,'' the spelling aide is increasingly used for the sense "helper, assistant'':One of the senator's aides is calling.Aide in military use is short for aide-de-camp. It is also the spelling in nurse's aide.
AID  (ād),USA pronunciation n. [U.S. Govt.]
  1. Governmentthe division of the United States International Development Cooperation Agency that coordinates the various foreign aid programs with U.S. foreign policy: established in 1961.
  • A(gency for) I(nternational) Dutch(evelopment)

AID, 
    1. American Institute of Decorators.
    2. American Institute of Interior Designers.
    3. British TermsAlso, A.I.D. artificial insemination donor.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
aid /eɪd/ vb
  1. to give support to (someone to do something); help or assist
  2. (transitive) to assist financially
 n
  1. assistance; help; support
  2. a person, device, etc, that helps or assists
  3. Also: artificial aid any of various devices such as a piton or nut when used as a direct help in the ascent
  4. (in medieval Europe; in England after 1066) a feudal payment made to the king or any lord by his vassals, usually on certain occasions such as the marriage of a daughter or the knighting of an eldest son
Etymology: 15th Century: via Old French aidier from Latin adjūtāre to help, from juvāre to helpˈaider n
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