workingman

Other forms of workingman

plural

workingmans·

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 workingman

What does workingman mean?

workingman means "an employee who performs manual or industrial labor".

How many syllables are in workingman?

workingman has 3 syllables: wor-king-man. The stress falls on "wor".

What is another word for workingman?

Close synonyms include workman, working man, working person. 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 workingman a common word?

workingman is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.