ouvrier

Meaning

Noun

1. worker, labourer (manual worker); workman
2. operator
3. carpenter

Adj

workers', working class

Concepts

worker

labourer

laborer

operative

working man

workman

workingman

employee

hand

✋

blue-collar

working

proletarian

blue-collar worker

factory worker

job

mazdoor

doer

functional

industrial

jack

laboring

outworker

running

🏃

wage earner

farm hand

manual laborer

working-class

prole

working person

actor

Synonyms

travailleur

ouvrière

employé

Scop

prolétaire

personnel

salarié

valet

artisan

bosseur

col bleu

fonctionnel

travailleuse

marneur

employe

acteur

workman

agent

cric

ouvrier agricole

personnage

Pronounced as (IPA)

/u.vʁi.je/

Etymology

Inherited from Old French ovrier, inherited from Latin operārius. Cf. also the doublet opéraire, a very rare and jargony term borrowed from the same Latin term.

Sentences

Joueur amateur , il est ouvrier de profession .

An amateur player, he is a worker by profession.

Aux et siècles , la majorité des emplois sont dans le secteur ouvrier .

In the past centuries, the majority of jobs were in the labour sector.