laborer vs longshoreman

longshoreman vs laborer

laborer and longshoreman both are nouns.

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

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

laborer: someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
longshoreman: 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, dockworker, loader, lumper, stevedore, fireman, stoker, woodcutter, wrecker, yardman.

laborer (noun)	longshoreman (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 longshoreman

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