labourer vs hired hand

hired hand vs labourer

labourer and hired hand both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
labourer	Yes	No	No	No
hired hand	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, hired hand is a hyponym of labourer; that is, hired hand is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than labourer:

labourer: someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
hired hand: a hired laborer on a farm or ranch

Other hyponyms of labourer include agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer, bracero, cleaner, day laborer, day labourer, digger, dishwasher, drudge, galley slave, navvy, peon, gandy dancer, gravedigger, hewer, 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.

labourer (noun)	hired hand (noun)
someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor	a hired laborer on a farm or ranch

Difference between labourer and hired hand

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