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labour
Overview of noun labour
The noun labour has 4 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) labor, labour, working class, proletariat -- (a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field")
2. parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed -- (concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours")
3. Labour Party, Labour, Labor Party, Labor -- (a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and the socialization of key industries)
4. labor, labour, toil -- (productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill")
Overview of verb labour
The verb labour has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil -- (work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long")
2. tug, labor, labour, push, drive -- (strive and make an effort to reach a goal; "She tugged for years to make a decent living"; "We have to push a little to make the deadline!"; "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis")
3. labor, labour -- (undergo the efforts of childbirth)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun labour
4 senses of labour
Sense 1
labor, labour, working class, proletariat
=> class, social class, socio-economic class
=> people
=> group, grouping
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
=> parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
=> organic process, biological process
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 3
Labour Party, Labour, Labor Party, Labor
=> party, political party
=> organization, organisation
=> social group
=> group, grouping
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 4
labor, labour, toil
=> work
=> activity
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun labour
3 of 4 senses of labour
Sense 1
labor, labour, working class, proletariat
=> labor force, labor pool
=> lumpenproletariat
=> organized labor
Sense 2
parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
=> premature labor, premature labour
Sense 4
labor, labour, toil
=> roping
=> corvee
=> drudgery, plodding, grind, donkeywork
=> effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat
=> hunt, hunting
=> hackwork
=> haymaking
=> manual labor, manual labour
=> overwork, overworking
=> slavery
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun labour
4 senses of labour
Sense 1
labor, labour, working class, proletariat
=> class, social class, socio-economic class
Sense 2
parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
=> parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
Sense 3
Labour Party, Labour, Labor Party, Labor
=> party, political party
Sense 4
labor, labour, toil
=> work
Antonyms of noun labour
Member Holonyms of noun labour
Substance Holonyms of noun labour
Part Holonyms of noun labour
1 of 4 senses of labour
Sense 2
parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
PART OF: pregnancy, gestation, maternity
Member Meronyms of noun labour
2 of 4 senses of labour
Sense 1
labor, labour, working class, proletariat
HAS MEMBER: proletarian, prole, worker
Sense 3
Labour Party, Labour, Labor Party, Labor
HAS MEMBER: Labourite
Substance Meronyms of noun labour
Part Meronyms of noun labour
1 of 4 senses of labour
Sense 2
parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
HAS PART: uterine contraction
HAS PART: effacement
HAS PART: asynclitism, obliquity
Meronyms of noun labour
3 of 4 senses of labour
Sense 1
labor, labour, working class, proletariat
HAS MEMBER: proletarian, prole, worker
Sense 2
parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
HAS PART: uterine contraction
HAS PART: effacement
HAS PART: asynclitism, obliquity
Sense 3
Labour Party, Labour, Labor Party, Labor
HAS MEMBER: Labourite
Holonyms of noun labour
1 of 4 senses of labour
Sense 2
parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
PART OF: pregnancy, gestation, maternity
Attributes of noun labour
Derived Forms of noun labour
2 of 4 senses of labour
Sense 2
parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
RELATED TO>(verb) labour#3
=> labor, labour
Sense 4
labor, labour, toil
RELATED TO>(verb) labour#2
=> tug, labor, labour, push, drive
RELATED TO>(verb) labour#1
=> labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
Domain of noun labour
Domain Terms of noun labour
Familiarity of noun labour
labour used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =4)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun labour
4 senses of labour
Sense 1
labor, labour, working class, proletariat
> class, social class, socio-economic class
=> world, domain
=> age class
=> agriculture
=> brotherhood, fraternity, sodality
=> estate, estate of the realm
=> labor, labour, working class, proletariat
=> lower class, underclass
=> middle class, bourgeoisie
=> booboisie
=> commonalty, commonality, commons
=> peasantry
=> demimonde
=> underworld
=> yeomanry
=> caste
=> caste
=> upper class, upper crust
=> ninja
=> firing line
=> immigrant class
=> center
=> old school
=> market
=> craft, trade
=> womanhood, woman, fair sex
Sense 2
parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
> parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
=> brooding, incubation
=> calving
=> childbirth, childbearing, accouchement, vaginal birth
=> farrow, farrowing
=> hatch, hatching
=> laying, egg laying
=> parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
Sense 3
Labour Party, Labour, Labor Party, Labor
> party, political party
=> American Labor Party
=> American Party, Know-Nothing Party
=> Anti-Masonic Party
=> Black Panthers
=> Communist Party
=> Conservative Party
=> Constitutional Union Party
=> Democratic Party
=> Democratic-Republican Party
=> Farmer-Labor Party
=> Federalist Party, American Federalist Party, Federal Party
=> Free Soil Party
=> Gironde
=> Green Party
=> Greenback Party
=> Kuomintang, Guomindang
=> Labour Party, Labour, Labor Party, Labor
=> Liberal Party
=> Liberty Party
=> Militant Tendency
=> National Socialist German Workers' Party, Nazi Party
=> People's Party, Populist Party
=> Progressive Party, Bull Moose Party
=> Prohibition Party
=> Republican Party, GOP
=> Social Democratic Party
=> Socialist Labor Party
=> Socialist Party
=> States' Rights Democratic Party, Dixiecrats
=> war party
=> Whig Party
=> third party
=> Opposition
Sense 4
labor, labour, toil
> work
=> wash, washing, lavation
=> action
=> job
=> job
=> operation, procedure
=> service
=> shining, polishing
=> heavy lifting
=> housewifery
=> housework, housekeeping
=> ironing
=> busywork, make-work
=> logging
=> loose end, unfinished business
=> nightwork
=> paperwork
=> welfare work, social service
=> labor, labour, toil
=> subbing, substituting
=> investigation, investigating
=> care, attention, aid, tending
=> duty
=> mission, missionary work
=> spadework
=> timework
=> undertaking, project, task, labor
=> coursework
Meronyms of noun labour
4 senses of labour
Sense 1
labor, labour, working class, proletariat
HAS MEMBER: proletarian, prole, worker
=> class, social class, socio-economic class
=> people
HAS MEMBER: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
Sense 2
parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
HAS PART: uterine contraction
HAS PART: effacement
HAS PART: asynclitism, obliquity
Sense 3
Labour Party, Labour, Labor Party, Labor
HAS MEMBER: Labourite
=> party, political party
=> organization, organisation
HAS MEMBER: quorum
HAS MEMBER: membership, rank
Holonyms of noun labour
1 of 4 senses of labour
Sense 2
parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
PART OF: pregnancy, gestation, maternity
Grep of noun labour
international labour organization
labour
labour of love
labour pains
labour party
labourer
labourite
manual labour
premature labour
Antonyms of verb labour
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb labour
3 senses of labour
Sense 1
labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
=> work, do work
Sense 2
tug, labor, labour, push, drive
=> fight, struggle
=> try, seek, attempt, essay, assay
=> act, move
Sense 3
labor, labour
=> experience, receive, have, get, undergo
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb labour
1 of 3 senses of labour
Sense 2
tug, labor, labour, push, drive
=> strive, reach, strain
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb labour
3 senses of labour
Sense 1
labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
=> work, do work
Sense 2
tug, labor, labour, push, drive
=> fight, struggle
Sense 3
labor, labour
=> experience, receive, have, get, undergo
'Cause To' of verb labour
Derived Forms of verb labour
3 senses of labour
Sense 1
labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
RELATED TO>(noun) labour#4
=> labor, labour, toil
RELATED TO>(noun) labourer#1
=> laborer, manual laborer, labourer, jack
Sense 2
tug, labor, labour, push, drive
RELATED TO>(noun) labour#4
=> labor, labour, toil
Sense 3
labor, labour
RELATED TO>(noun) labour#2
=> parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
Domain of verb labour
Domain Terms of verb labour
Familiarity of verb labour
labour used as a verb is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Sample Sentences of verb labour
3 senses of labour
Sense 1
labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
*> Somebody ----s
*> Somebody ----s PP
Sense 2
tug, labor, labour, push, drive
*> Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
Sense 3
labor, labour
*> Somebody ----s
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb labour
3 senses of labour
Sense 1
labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
> work, do work
=> serve
=> bank
=> fill, take
=> drive
=> tinker
=> serve
=> fink, scab, rat, blackleg
=> labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
=> farm
=> moonlight
=> job
=> man
=> slave, break one's back, buckle down, knuckle down
=> free-lance
=> subcontract
=> turn a trick
=> freelance
Sense 2
tug, labor, labour, push, drive
> fight, struggle
=> tug, labor, labour, push, drive
=> flounder
Sense 3
labor, labour
> experience, receive, have, get, undergo
=> respire
=> labor, labour
=> suffer, sustain, have, get
=> take
=> horripilate
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb labour
Sense 1
labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
=> work, do work
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Sense 2
tug, labor, labour, push, drive
=> fight, struggle
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Sense 3
labor, labour
=> experience, receive, have, get, undergo
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Grep of verb labour
belabour
labour
Grep of adj labour
labour-intensive
laboured
labouring
laboursaving
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