labour: meaning and words from its letters
6 letters · 8 letter points · starts with L · ends with R
Meaning of labour
noun
- countable, uncountable
An effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
- countable, uncountable
That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
- uncountable
Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.
- uncountable
A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
Listed forms: labours, labor.
Source: Wiktionary — labour.
verb
- intransitive
To toil, to work.
- transitive
To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
Example: I think we've all got the idea. There's no need to labour the point.
To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard or wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden.
To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
Listed forms: labours, labouring, laboured, labor.
Source: Wiktionary — labour.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for labour.
noun
a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
- labor
- working class
- proletariat
noun
concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
- parturiency
- labor
- confinement
- lying-in
- travail
- childbed
noun
productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
noun
any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is labour in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Not found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of labour
L(1) + A(1) + B(3) + O(1) + U(1) + R(1) = 8 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of labour
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from labour
36 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in labour. Showing up to 24, longest first.