Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Helpmeet \Help"meet`\, n. [See {Helpmate}.]
   A wife; a helpmate.

         The Lord God created Adam, . . . and afterwards, on his
         finding the want of a helpmeet, caused him to sleep,
         and took one of his ribs and thence made woman. --J. H.
                                                  Newman.

Source : WordNet®

helpmeet
     n : a helpful partner [syn: {helpmate}]