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Toiler

Definition: Toiler

Toiler

Noun

1. One who works strenuously.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "toiler" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)


Modern Usage: Toiler

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Tillie the Toiler (1941)

The Toiler (1932)

Tillie the Toiler (1927)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Toiler

DomainTitle

Books

  • Toiler of the Sea (reference)

  • World Oil Co. Vs. Northeast Shipbuilding, Inc. and Toiler Salvage Co.: Defective Designs, Negligence (reference)

  • World Oil V. Northeast Shipbuilding, Inc., and Toiler Salvage Co. (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Toiler

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Tillie the toiler. This life is all right, but these fellows are playboys. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: Toiler

"Toiler" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Toiler" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%7133,076

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Toiler

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

tillie toiler

3

tiller toiler

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Toiler

Language Translations for "toiler"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

punëtor (employable, hand, hardworking, industrious, laborer, laboring, labourer, labouring, machine-minder, man, worker, working, workman). (various references)

   

Czech

  

dříè (drudge, grind, hard worker). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

زحمتکش (Grub, Plodder, Studious, Sufferer, Workingman), رنجبر (Durdge, Painstaking). (various references)

   

German

  

Arbeiter (blue collar worker, hand, jobber, jobbers, labor, laborer, labour, labourer, labourers, operative, operator, shop, worker, workers, working man, workman, workmen). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κοπιάζων, βιοπαλαιστήσ (breadwinner), βιοπαλαίστρια (breadwinner), μοχθών (plodder, striver, struggler). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

dolgozó (employee, jobholder, laborer, labourer, neuter bee, operative, worker, working). (various references)

   

Italian

  

lavorante (assistant, female worker, operative, worker). (various references)

   

Manx

  

tooilleyder. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oilertay

   

Portuguese

  

trabalhador (active, blue collar worker, diligent, full-timer, hand, hardworking, industrious, jobber, journeyman, labor intensive, laborer, laborious, labour intensive, labourer, operative, painstaking selection, practise, sedulous, worker, working, working man, workman), labutador. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

muncitor (active, hard working, industrious, Jack, journeyman, laborer, laboring, laborious, labourer, labouring, operative, operose, worker, working, workman). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

труженик (plodder, plodders). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

fizički radnik. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

trabajador (craftsman, dairyman, daysman, dependant, dependent, employee, hand, hard working, industrious, laborer, labourer, operative, worker, working, working man, workingman, workman). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người lao động (worker), người l m việc vất vả v cực nhọc. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Toiler

Derivations

Words beginning with "toiler": toilers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Toiler" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: goiler, joiler, otlier, Rouiller, tailer, Tailleur, tayler, Tilery, Toader, tocile, tocler, Tofler, toife, toilen, toilier, toiuer, toiver, tolar, toler, Toliara, tolier, Tolmer, tooler, touile, touler, toviere, towler, toxie, toyle, tuila, tuile, Tuilerie, tuiller, tuviera. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Toiler"

Words rhyming with "toiler" (pronounced 'Toil"er'): Abaser, Abater, Abider, Abjurer, Abridger, Absconder, Absenter, Absolver, Absorber, Abstainer, Abstracter, Abuser, Acceder, Accepter, Acclaimer, Accorder, Accruer, Accuser, Achiever, Acquirer, Adherer, Adjudger, Adjurer, Adjuster, Admirer, Adopter, Adorer, Adorner, Advertiser, Adviser, Advoyer, Affecter, Affirmer, Afflicter, Affrayer, Affreighter, Affrighter, Affronter, Aflicker, Agreer, Aider, Aimer, Airer, Aliner, Allayer, Alleger, Allower, Allurer, Altogether, Amasser. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Toiler

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: loiter.

Words within the letters "e-i-l-o-r-t"

-1 letter: lirot, liter, litre, oiler, oriel, relit, reoil, teloi, tiler, toile, triol.

-2 letters: lier, lire, lite, lore, loti, orle, riel, rile, riot, rite, roil, role, rote, roti, rotl, tier, tile, tire, tirl, tiro, toil, tole, tore, tori, trio.

-3 letters: ire, lei, let, lie, lit, lot, oil, ole, ore, ort, rei, ret, roe, rot, tel.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-l-o-r-t"
 

+1 letter: estriol, joltier, loftier, loiters, motlier, outlier, overlit, poitrel, politer, retinol, toilers, tortile, trefoil, triolet.

 

+2 letters: aerolite, aerolith, amitrole, blottier, chlorite, cloister, clothier, coistrel, costlier, cryolite, dolerite, elicitor, elytroid, erotical, estriols, floatier, fluorite, heliport, hotelier, idolater, kryolite, laborite, leprotic, libretto, loitered, loiterer, loricate, lorikeet, oestriol, oriental, outliers, outliner, outliver, overgilt, overtoil, petiolar, petrolic, pilewort, plottier, poitrels, portlier, regolith, relation, retailor, retinols, rhyolite, roiliest, rolamite, rootlike, stolider, strobile, tailored, terpinol, toiletry, trefoils, triazole, trilobed, triolets, troilite, trollied, trollies, trotline, ulterior, violater.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Toiler


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 6F 69 6C 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    ---    ..    .-..    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01101111 01101001 01101100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#111 &#105 &#108 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 006F 0069 006C 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

548175787184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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