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worke

worke is the obsolete spelling of work.

Meaning of work

Noun

work (countable and uncountable, plural works)

  1. Labour, occupation, job.
    • My work involves a lot of travel.
  2. The place where one is employed.
    • He hasn’t come home yet; he’s still at work.
  3. (broadly) One's employer.
    • I want to go to the reunion concert, but I'm not sure if my work will give me the time off.
  4. (dated) A factory; a works.
    • In trials of a Martin furnace in a steel work at Remscheiden, Germany, a lining of zirconia was found in good condition after[…]1917, Platers' Guide, page 246
  5. Effort expended on a particular task.
    • Holding a brick over your head is hard work. It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary.
  6. Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
    • We know what we must do. Let's go to work.

See all 51 meanings of work

Forms of worke

Noun
pluralworkes
Verb
third-person singular presentworkes
present participleworking
past participleworked
pastworked

Questions about worke

What is worke the obsolete spelling of?
Worke is the obsolete spelling of work.

Words near worke in the dictionary

  1. workcest
  2. workday
  3. workdays
  4. workdog
  5. workdogs
  6. worke
  7. worked
  8. worked around
  9. worked at
  10. worked away
  11. worked back

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Adapted from Wiktionary: worke (page history and authors); work (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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