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Synonyms for toiler

Grammar : Noun
Spell : toil
Phonetic Transcription : tɔɪl

Définition of toiler

Origin :
  • "hard work," c.1300, "turmoil, contention, dispute," from Anglo-French toil (13c.), from toiler "agitate, stir up, entangle," from Old French toeillier "drag about, make dirty" (12c.), usually said to be from Latin tudiculare "crush with a small hammer," from tudicula "mill for crushing olives, instrument for crushing," from root of tundere "to pound" (see obtuse). Sense of "hard work, labor" (1590s) is from the related verb (see toil (v.)).
  • noun worker
Example sentences :
  • You look out: the toiler's day is a-comin', and it ain't so fur off, neither!
  • Extract from : « Alice Adams » by Booth Tarkington
  • What strikes one most in his work is the disinterestedness of the toiler.
  • Extract from : « Notes on Life and Letters » by Joseph Conrad
  • You are a toiler, a drudge, you knock off a great deal of work.
  • Extract from : « Artists' Wives » by Alphonse Daudet
  • From this age onwards, the young Greenlander remains a toiler of the sea.
  • Extract from : « Eskimo Life » by Fridtjof Nansen
  • The toiler badly paid and ill-fed, is separated from the thinker.
  • Extract from : « A Few Words About the Devil » by Charles Bradlaugh
  • The face of the toiler lighted, the eyes gazed kindly, at Carnac.
  • Extract from : « Carnac's Folly, Complete » by Gilbert Parker
  • Who wouldn't be a fellah rather than a toiler in any English town?
  • Extract from : « Bella Donna » by Robert Hichens
  • It is a fictitious clearness of mind that comes to the midnight toiler.
  • Extract from : « The Young Man and the World » by Albert J. Beveridge
  • That perhaps for a tired invalid, for a toiler worked to a rag.
  • Extract from : « The Research Magnificent » by H. G. Wells
  • To better the condition of the toiler was his sincere desire.
  • Extract from : « Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14) » by Elbert Hubbard

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