workman

Other forms of workman

plural

workmans·

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 workman

What does workman mean?

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

How many syllables are in workman?

workman has 2 syllables: work-man. The stress falls on "work". In IPA it is /ˈwɝkmən/.

What is another word for workman?

Close synonyms include workingman, 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 workman a common word?

workman 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.