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Antonyms for chore

Grammar : Noun
Spell : chawr, chohr
Phonetic Transcription : tʃɔr, tʃoʊr

Definition of chore

Origin :
  • 1751, American English, variant of char, from Middle English cherre "odd job," from Old English cerr, cierr "turn, change, time, occasion, affair business."
  • Chore, a corruption of char, is an English word, still used in many parts of England, as a char-man, a char-woman; but in America, it is perhaps confined to New England. It signifies small domestic jobs of work, and its place cannot be supplied by any other single word in the language. [Noah Webster, "Dissertations on the English Language," 1789]
  • noun task
Example sentences :
  • Somewhere on these six hundred acres was the herd and it was his chore to find it and bring it in.
  • Extract from : « Dust » by Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
  • "You said running errands was my chore," he reminded his mother.
  • Extract from : « Jerry's Charge Account » by Hazel Hutchins Wilson
  • The sooner he finished the sooner his mother might give him some other chore to do.
  • Extract from : « Jerry's Charge Account » by Hazel Hutchins Wilson
  • I had started for the store, but then remembered a chore I wanted him to do.
  • Extract from : « Stopover » by William Gerken
  • He did not force him, he did many a chore for him, always picked the best piece of the meal for him.
  • Extract from : « Siddhartha » by Herman Hesse
  • The Jap chore boy carried it to the teamsters, "It is a boy."
  • Extract from : « A California Girl » by Edward Eldridge
  • The Chinaman cook carried it to the Jap chore boy, "It is a boy."
  • Extract from : « A California Girl » by Edward Eldridge
  • But now the chore boy appeared to take charge of the horses.
  • Extract from : « The Adventures of Bobby Orde » by Stewart Edward White
  • What did I do but apply for the job of chore boy at that campand got it!
  • Extract from : « Joan of the Journal » by Helen Diehl Olds
  • Reading had been something of a chore while he was still in high school.
  • Extract from : « Plowing On Sunday » by Sterling North

Synonyms for chore

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