laborer vs galley slave

galley slave vs laborer

laborer and galley slave both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
laborer	Yes	No	No	No
galley slave	Yes	No	No	No

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

laborer: someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
galley slave: a laborer who is obliged to do menial work

Other hyponyms of laborer include agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer, bracero, cleaner, day laborer, day labourer, digger, dishwasher, drudge, 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, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore, fireman, stoker, woodcutter, wrecker, yardman.

laborer (noun)	galley slave (noun)
someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor	a slave condemned to row in a galley
	a laborer who is obliged to do menial work

Difference between laborer and galley slave

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