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Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
Peter Benchley

Meaning of "drudgery" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DRUDGERY

drudgery  [ˈdrʌdʒərɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DRUDGERY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Drudgery is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DRUDGERY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

drudgery

Laborer

A laborer or labourer — see variation in English spelling — is a person who does one of the construction trades, traditionally considered unskilled manual labor, as opposed to skilled labor. In the division of labor, laborers have all blasting, hand tools, power tools, air tools, and small heavy equipment, and act as assistants to other trades, e.g., operators or cement masons. The 1st century BC engineer Vitruvius writes in detail about laborer practices at that time. In his experience a good crew of laborers is just as valuable as any other aspect of construction. Other than the addition of pneumatics, laborer practices have changed little. With the advent of advanced technology and its introduction into the construction field, the laborers have been quick to include much of this technology as being laborers work.

Definition of drudgery in the English dictionary

The definition of drudgery in the dictionary is hard, menial, and monotonous work.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DRUDGERY


azury
ˈæʒərɪ
begrudgery
bɪˈɡrʌdʒərɪ
biosurgery
ˈbaɪəʊˌsɜːdʒərɪ
budgeree
ˈbʌdʒərɪ
cryosurgery
ˌkraɪəʊˈsɜːdʒərɪ
cudgerie
ˈkʌdʒərɪ
electrosurgery
ɪˌlɛktrəʊˈsɜːdʒərɪ
forgery
ˈfɔːdʒərɪ
gingery
ˈdʒɪndʒərɪ
injury
ˈɪndʒərɪ
lingerie
ˈlænʒərɪ
menagerie
mɪˈnædʒərɪ
microsurgery
ˌmaɪkrəʊˈsɜːdʒərɪ
neurosurgery
ˌnjʊərəʊˈsɜːdʒərɪ
orangery
ˈɒrɪndʒərɪ
perjury
ˈpɜːdʒərɪ
psychosurgery
ˌsaɪkəʊˈsɜːdʒərɪ
surgery
ˈsɜːdʒərɪ
treasury
ˈtrɛʒərɪ
usury
ˈjuːʒərɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DRUDGERY

drub
drubbed
drubber
drubbing
drucken
drudge
drudger
drudgeries
drudgingly
drudgism
drug
drug addict
drug addiction
drug baron
drug czar
drug dealer
drug habit
drug on the market
drug peddler
drug pusher

WORDS THAT END LIKE DRUDGERY

buggery
cosmetic surgery
dental surgery
dodgery
elective surgery
heart surgery
imagery
laser surgery
open-heart surgery
orthopaedic surgery
orthopedic surgery
piggery
plastic surgery
reconstructive surgery
savagery
skulduggery
skullduggery
snuggery
thuggery
tigery

Synonyms and antonyms of drudgery in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DRUDGERY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «drudgery» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of drudgery

Translation of «drudgery» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DRUDGERY

Find out the translation of drudgery to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of drudgery from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «drudgery» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

苦工
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

monotonía
570 millions of speakers

English

drudgery
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कठिन परिश्रम
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الكدح
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тяжелая
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

labuta
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গোলামি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

corvée
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kerja keras
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schinderei
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

苦役
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

천역
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Drudgery
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

làm cực nhọc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கடும்உழைப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कष्टप्रद
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

angarya
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fatica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

harówka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

важка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

corvoadă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αγγαρεία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sleurwerk
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

slit
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

slit
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of drudgery

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DRUDGERY»

The term «drudgery» is regularly used and occupies the 82.377 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DRUDGERY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «drudgery» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «drudgery» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about drudgery

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10 QUOTES WITH «DRUDGERY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word drudgery.
1
Ted Allen
For me, the kitchen is the most special room in the house. It's a place for adventure - not drudgery, but discovery, sharing and showing off with friends, trying new ideas.
2
Charles Babbage
Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.
3
Peter Benchley
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
4
Don Bluth
If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!
5
Ursula Burns
This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.
6
Bryan Burrough
Just being able to get paid to do something you love is a wonderful thing. That said, a writer's daily routine, unless you're Dominick Dunne, isn't exactly glamorous. Much of it amounts to drudgery, staring at a computer screen all day in a room by yourself, juggling nouns and verbs to make a demanding editor happy.
7
Carmen Agra Deedy
You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery.
8
Margaret Fuller
Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.
9
Dave Gibbons
I'm known for being very enthusiastic about using technology. A lot of the attraction is the way that it streamlines the process and takes a lot of the drudgery out of it.
10
Lara St. John
I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRUDGERY»

Discover the use of drudgery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to drudgery and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Drudgery of the Hill Women
This book, based on a primary survey looks at the socia, economic, and political status, contribution and quality of life of women in the rural areas of the Himalayan region.
Purna Nand Pande, 1996
2
Blessed Be Drudgery
They prepare us for what is yet to come. The drudgery of everyday life, the hills and pits we must maneuver over and through strengthen and make us wiser. In Blessed Be Drudgery William C. Gannett brings us to this realization and beyond.
William Channing Gannett, 2011
3
Blessed Be Drudgery and a Cup of Cold Water
(LARGE PRINT EDITION) This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
William C. Gannett, 2011
4
The Bored Stupid at Work Doodle Book: Escape Your ...
Tired of counting paperclips? The Bored Stupid at Work Doodle Book is full of fun ideas for relieving workplace tension and tedium.
Rose Adders, 2012
5
The family that works together--: turning family chores from ...
Chock-full of practical parenting advice, the book spotlights successful "family work" techniques developed by Lott and Intner.
Lynn Lott, Riki Intner, 1994
6
Small Steps on A Long Journey: A Collection of Thoughtful ...
DRUDGERY. Walking seems to be the exercise of choice for many people especially as we grow older. I know that I should walk more often for cardio- vascular improvement and overall health reasons. I much prefer to walk outside in the sun ...
Tim McConnell, 2010
7
Women in Agriculture: A Socio-economic Analysis
The instrument consisted of ten pictures depicting ten important farm operations, each one of them serve as a stimulus to give expression to the subjective experiences of the respondents with the depicted operations as far as drudgery is  ...
Shashi Kanta Varma, 1992
8
Peasant Economics: Farm Households in Agrarian Development
The. drudgery-averse. peasant. Peasants as consumers and producers The theories of peasant household behaviour examined so far, profit maximisation and risk-aversion, take no account of the consumption side of peasant decision making ...
Frank Ellis, 1993
9
A Handbook of Economic Anthropology
People produce according to the logic of the balance of the exponentially increasing drudgery of labour and the exponentially decreasing marginal utility of the goods their labour produces. To paraphrase Chayanov, the more people work ...
James G. Carrier, 2006
10
How to Teach
indistinguishable from play as it partakes of its characteristics, or it may swing to the other extreme and be almost drudgery. The difference between the three activities is a subjective matter—a difference largely in mood, in attitude of the person ...
George Drayton Strayer, Naomi Norsworthy, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DRUDGERY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term drudgery is used in the context of the following news items.
1
To Each Age Its Inequality
Factories churned out huge quantities of goods, liberating humanity from much of the manual drudgery of the agricultural age and freeing them ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
2
digibyte – keeping your skills one step ahead of the robots
You might no longer think of it as a job, at least at first, because anything that seems like drudgery will be done by robots. I hope Kelly is right ... «Diginomica, Jul 15»
3
Budget 2015: Chattering classes with plenty of cash only ones …
Not for them the drudgery of having to work on Saturdays or Sundays. That is the role of the working class, there to serve to the whims of their ... «Belfast Telegraph, Jul 15»
4
The 'Francis Option'
They learned from him that the life of faith wasn't easy, but that it wasn't drudgery either. They learned that Christianity was strong and vital and ... «National Catholic Register, Jul 15»
5
Randy Chapman: Office cleaning loosens a host of thoughts
... the sentiment that follows is a grand way to conclude this column, a commentary inspired by the drudgery of an overdue office cleaning:. «Post-Bulletin, Jul 15»
6
Zimmerman introduces new training method
That keeps things fresh for the athletes and they don't have to deal with the drudgery of doing the same thing over and over again. “The goal is ... «Davisonindex, Jul 15»
7
College Corner
If it's drudgery for you to write, the essay will be boring to read. If you are excited about your idea, that enthusiasm will come through in the ... «Agoura Hills Acorn, Jul 15»
8
Big infrastructure: getting gender and the needs of women wrong
These are not complex or abstract questions, and yet the answers can be the difference between misery and drudgery and a healthy, decent ... «Open Democracy, Jul 15»
9
Ben Affleck And The Experts Are Wrong: Marriage Is Not Hard Work
With synonyms like labor, toil, slog, drudgery, exertion, effort ... why would anyone want to spend decades doing that? Shouldn't it just kind of ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
10
Terrorists and budget airlines will never ruin the romance of flying
The drudgery of modern airport security began: all those dreary rituals, endless and mindless and ineffective. You can't carry a small, light ... «GQ.com, Jul 15»

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