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labourite

/ˈleɪbəˌɹaɪt/

labourite noun: a person involved in the labour movement.

Noun (1)

labourite (plural labourites)

  1. (historical) A person involved in the labour movement.
    • For many British, as well as Australian socialists and labourites, the labour movement had a special duty to appropriate, restore and develop the "true" patriotism of "the education and uplifting of England herself as a nation", of democratic advance, of "a love of freedom", […]2010, Billy Frank, Craig Horner, David Stewart, The British Labour Movement and Imperialism, page 63

Noun (2) capitalized: Labourite

Labourite (plural Labourites)

  1. (UK) a member or supporter of the British Labour Party, the left wing party of Great Britain
    Synonyms:
    Labourist
  2. (misspelling) Misspelling of Laborite (“Australian political party member, Labor Party”).

Synonyms of labourite

Forms of labourite

plurallabourites
pluralLabourites

Origin of labourite

From labour + -ite.

From Labour + -ite.

Questions about labourite

What does labourite mean?
Labourite means a person involved in the labour movement.
What part of speech is labourite?
Labourite is a noun.
How do you pronounce labourite?
Labourite is pronounced /ˈleɪbəˌɹaɪt/.
What is the plural of labourite?
The plural of labourite is labourites.

Words near labourite in the dictionary

  1. labourism
  2. labourisms
  3. labourist
  4. labouristic
  5. labourists
  6. labourite
  7. labourites
  8. labourless
  9. labourous
  10. labourously
  11. labours

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Adapted from Wiktionary: labourite (page history and authors); Labourite (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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