workman

Meaning

1. A man who labours for wages.
2. An artisan or craftsman.

Synonyms

worker

laborer

labourer

working man

artisan

craftsman

operative

hand

✋

mechanic

🧑‍🔧

workingman

employee

coolie

wage-earner

carpenter

wright

servant

toiler

schemer

working person

proletarian

working days

skilled workman

do work

professional worker

laborer

artificer

labourer

builder

charwoman

enterpriser

factory hand

industrial worker

Jack

job

labor

labouring man

maid

man

👨

navvy

peasant

robot

🤖

tradesman

wage earner

woodworker

manual laborer

unskilled laborer

Hyphenated as

work‧man

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈwɝkmən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: werkman

Inherited from Old English: weorcmann

Cognate with Dutch: werkman

Cognate with German: Werkmann

Cognate with Icelandic: verkamaður

In summary

From Middle English werkman, from Old English weorcmann (“workman”), from Proto-West Germanic *werkamann, from Proto-Germanic *werkamann- (“workman”), equivalent to work + -man. Compare Dutch werkman (“workman”), German Werkmann (“labourer, workman”), Icelandic verkamaður (“workman”).

Sentences

A bad workman blames his tools .