laborer

Other forms of laborer

plural

laborers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about laborer

What does laborer mean?

laborer means "someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor".

How many syllables are in laborer?

laborer has 3 syllables: la-bo-rer. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /ˈleɪbɚɚ/.

What is another word for laborer?

Close synonyms include manual laborer, labourer, jack. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is laborer a common word?

laborer is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.