travail

travail
Synonyms and related words:
accouchement, be confined, bear, bear a child, bear young, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, calve, cast, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, confinement, delivery, dig, dirty work, donkeywork, drop, drudge, drudgery, employment, fag, farrow, fatigue, fawn, foal, genesis, give birth, giving birth, grind, grub, hammer, hammer away, handiwork, handwork, hatching, have, have a baby, have young, having a baby, industry, kitten, labor, lamb, lick, lick of work, lie in, litter, manual labor, moil, multiparity, nascency, nativity, pains, parturition, peg, peg away, plod, plug, plug along, plug away, plugging, pound away, pup, rat race, scut work, slavery, slog, spadework, stroke, stroke of work, struggle, sweat, task, the Nativity, the stork, throw, tiresome work, toil, treadmill, wade through, whelp, work, work away, yean

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  • TRAVAIL — ON en a fait maintes fois la remarque: l’apparition du mot «travail» est relativement récente. Cela ne signifie certes pas que la réalité désignée par ce mot le soit également, ni qu’il existât jamais de sociétés se livrant à la complète oisiveté …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • travail — TRAVAIL. s. m. Labeur, peine, fatigue, soit du corps, soit de l esprit, qu on prend pour faire quelque chose. Grand, long, penible travail. se mettre au travail. quitter le travail. aimer le travail. se plaire au travail. fuïr le travail. endurer …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • travail — Travail, Opera, Labor, ou Traveil, est enim qui putet ductum a Transuigilare, id est, Peruigilare. Car traveiller, est diligentem operam alicui rei impendere, quod non fit sine fatigatione. Martialis: Nam vigilare leue est, peruigilare graue. La… …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • Travail — Trav ail (?; 48), n. [F. travail; cf. Pr. trabalh, trebalh, toil, torment, torture; probably from LL. trepalium a place where criminals are tortured, instrument of torture. But the French word may be akin to L. trabs a beam, or have been… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Travail — Tra vail , n. [Cf. F. travail, a frame for confining a horse, or OF. travail beam, and E. trave, n. Cf. {Travail}, v. i.] Same as {Travois}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Travail — Trav ail, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Travailed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Travailing}.] [F. travailler, OF. traveillier, travaillier, to labor, toil, torment; cf. Pr. trebalhar to torment, agitate. See {Travail}, n.] 1. To labor with pain; to toil. [Archaic]… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Travail — Trav ail, v. t. To harass; to tire. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] As if all these troubles had not been sufficient to travail the realm, a great division fell among the nobility. Hayward. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • travail — (n.) labor, toil, mid 13c., from O.Fr. travail suffering or painful effort, trouble (12c.), from travailler to toil, labor, originally to trouble, torture, from V.L. *tripaliare to torture, from *tripalium (in L.L. trepalium) instrument of… …   Etymology dictionary

  • travail — index disaster, effort, endeavor, hardship, labor, strive Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • travail — *labor, *work, toil, drudgery, grind Analogous words: *effort, exertion, pains, trouble …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • travail — literary ► NOUN (also travails) 1) painful or laborious effort. 2) labour pains. ► VERB ▪ undergo such effort. ORIGIN Old French, from Latin trepalium instrument of torture …   English terms dictionary

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