man friday

1. 1.

   the most helpful assistant

   Synonymsright-hand manchief assistant

   Broaderassistant

Questions about man friday

What does man friday mean?

man friday means "the most helpful assistant".

What is another word for man friday?

Close synonyms include right-hand man, chief assistant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is man friday a common word?

man friday 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.