Loading page
say it: WUR-kur
worker is a noun meaning "a person who works at a specific occupation". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a member of the working class (not necessarily employed)
“workers of the world--unite!”
sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae
a person who acts and gets things done
“he's a principal actor in this affair”
“when you want something done get a doer”
“he's a miracle worker”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for worker come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.