laborer vs stevedore

stevedore vs laborer

laborer and stevedore both are nouns.

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

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

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

laborer (noun)	stevedore (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 stevedore

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