labourer
French, verb/la.bu.ʁe/
labourer is spelled L-A-B-O-U-R-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 47,227th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Labourer is a French verb meaning “to plough” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Remuer, retourner la terre en formant des sillons avec la charrue, la houe, et autres instruments aratoires”.
What does labourer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to plough
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Remuer, retourner la terre en formant des sillons avec la charrue, la houe, et autres instruments aratoires. 2. Faire, sur le sol, ou par analogie sur une autre surface, à peu près le même effet que la charrue, la bêche, etc. 3. Blesser moralement en profondeur. 4. Se dit d’une ancre qui ne tient pas sur le fond où on l’a jetée, ou d’un navire qui passe et touche le fond sans être arrêté.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of labourer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- labourant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- labouré participle past
- laboure first-person indicative present
- laboures indicative present second-person
- labourons first-person indicative plural
- labourez indicative plural present
- labourent indicative plural present
- labourais first-person imperfect indicative
- labourait imperfect indicative singular
- labourions first-person imperfect indicative
- labouriez imperfect indicative plural
- labouraient imperfect indicative plural
- labourai first-person historic indicative
- labouras historic indicative past
- laboura historic indicative past
- labourâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce labourer?
- /la.bu.ʁe/
- \la.bu.ʁe\
- [la.bu.ʁe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to labourer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is labourer in French?
labourer appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).