Synonyms for laborer
- noun
- American English
All synonyms
Noun
1. Workman — one who labors. One who uses bodily strength rather than intellect to earn a wage, usually hourly
worker, workman, employee, drudge, hand, operative, manual laborer, toiler
Other
workingman, breadwinner, roustabout US, rouseabout AU, navvy, jack dated
Definitions
- n. 1
One who labors. One who uses bodily strength rather than intellect to earn a wage, usually hourly.
Related words
- Phrases
- manual laborer day laborer
- Is a kind of
- worker
- Other spellings
- labourer UK
Forms
- Plural
- laborers → workers, workmen, employees, drudges…
Choose the right word
The hod-carrier is a laborer; the bricklayer is a mechanic; the master mason is an artificer.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- employee My brother is an employee of the electric company.
- workman The workman, as a rule, works eight hours a day.
- breadwinner Yanni is the essential breadwinner in the family.
By length
- 4 letters
- hand1, jack1
- 5 letters
- navvy
- 6 letters
- worker2, drudge1, toiler
- 7 letters
- workman2
- 8 letters
- employee3
- 9 letters
- operative4
- 10 letters
- workingman, roustabout, rouseabout
- 11 letters
- breadwinner3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (worker2 = 2 syllables).