Synonyms for travail
Most common
child birth parturition child bed confinement toil tribulation pain
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Labor
labor US, labour UK, child birth, parturition, child bed, confinement, delivery, lying-in, accouchement, parturiency
2. Toil — arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship
3. Pain
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
- n. 2
Specifically, the labor of childbirth.
- n. 3
A frame, often consisting of two poles tied together at one end to form a V-shaped structure with the vertex attached to a dog, horse, etc., or held by a person and the other ends touching the ground, which was used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land.
Related words
- Is a kind of
- litter horse litter ambulance
- Other spellings
- travois travoise
Forms
- Plural
- travails → labors, parturitions, confinements, deliveries…
Example sentences
- labor There is a labor shortage of computer programmers.
- toil Toil and worry caused his health to break down.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| travail | steady | |
| labor | falling | |
| parturition | falling | |
| accouchement | falling | |
| toil | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- pain1, toil1
- 5 letters
- labor2, sweat1, moyle1
- 6 letters
- effort2, labour2, ordeal2
- 7 letters
- fatigue2
- 8 letters
- delivery4, hardship2, exertion3
- 11 letters
- confinement3, tribulation4, parturition, parturiency
- 12 letters
- accouchement
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (labor2 = 2 syllables).