French Conversation · Level 88
60 words
French word
laboureur
Pronunciation
IPA/labuʁœʁ/
Meaning
- masculine nounfarmer
Example
Le laboureur travaille dans le champ.
The farmer works in the field.
More examples
Il est laboureur et vend ses légumes au marché.
He is a farm laborer and sells his vegetables at the market.
Core concept
A farmer walking behind a plough as it turns a field into furrows.
Common phrases
être laboureur
be a farm laborer
travailler comme laboureur
work as a farm laborer
Similar words
agriculteur: A professional farmer who grows crops for food.
paysan: A small-scale farmer who lives by tending fields or livestock.
fermier: A farmer who runs a farm and raises crops or livestock.
cultivateur: A person who cultivates land to grow crops.
Definition in French
Personne qui cultive la terre pour produire des récoltes, souvent en la labourant.
Word origin
French laboureur derives from labourer, 'to plough or work the soil,' with the agent suffix -eur; labourer ultimately goes back to Latin laborare, 'to work.'
Usage tips
- Laboureur is less common in everyday modern French than agriculteur and often sounds literary or historical.