laborer vs dockworker

dockworker vs laborer

laborer and dockworker both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
laborer	Yes	No	No	No
dockworker	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, dockworker is a hyponym of laborer; that is, dockworker is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than laborer:

laborer: someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
dockworker: a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port

Other hyponyms of laborer include agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer, bracero, cleaner, day laborer, day labourer, digger, dishwasher, drudge, galley slave, navvy, peon, gandy dancer, gravedigger, hewer, hand, hired hand, hired man, hod carrier, hodman, gipsy, gypsy, itinerant, faller, feller, logger, lumberjack, lumberman, miner, mineworker, mule driver, mule skinner, muleteer, skinner, platelayer, tracklayer, porter, rail-splitter, splitter, sawyer, section hand, sprayer, stacker, steeplejack, dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore, fireman, stoker, woodcutter, wrecker, yardman.

laborer (noun)	dockworker (noun)
someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor	a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port

Difference between laborer and dockworker

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