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What's in aid of?
What's something in aid of?
(British & Australian informal) something that you say when you want to know why someone has done something I heard the shouting from the other side of the building. What was that in aid of? A present! What's this in aid of?
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| Diot | | - | Medieval English |
| Lev (1) | | LYEF | Russian |
| Apollo | | ə-PAW-lo (English) | Greek Mythology (Latinized) |
| Bada | | - | Anglo-Saxon |
| Aria | | AHR-ee-ə | English |
| Efrat | | - | Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew |