hired hand

Questions about hired hand

What is another word for hired hand?

It depends which hired hand you mean. In the sense “a hired laborer on a farm or ranch”, the synonyms are hand, hired man. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of hired hand?

WordNet records no antonym for hired hand. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for hired hand come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of hired hand

• Full entry for hired handAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for hired handWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.