good samaritan

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   a person who voluntarily offers help or sympathy in times of trouble

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Questions about good samaritan

What does good samaritan mean?

good samaritan means "a person who voluntarily offers help or sympathy in times of trouble".

Is good samaritan a common word?

good samaritan is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.