Labour and Play

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Labour

Labour noun - Productive work (especially physical work done for wages).
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Play is an antonym for labour.
Nearby Words: labor, labored, laboured, laborer, labourer

Play

Play noun - Activity engaged in to amuse oneself.
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Labour is an antonym for play.
Nearby Words: played, playful, player, playfulness, playing
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How words are described

short short labour short play
actual actual labour actual play
great great labour great play
dark dark labour dark play
Other adjectives: professional, next.

Both words in one sentence

  • Love's Labour's Lost has four noblemen and four noblewomen, who coincidentally have been in love since before the play started and spend most of the play pretending not to notice each other.
    Source: No Loves Intersect
  • Shakespeare in Fiction One or both of the lost plays, Love's Labour's Won and the Fletcherian collaboration Cardenio, play some important role in the plot.
    Source: Shakespeare in Fiction
  • Canadian football fans tend to go especially crazy around September, when the Labour Day Classic is played and the various teams play their most hated rivals in home-and-home games.
    Source: Serious Business / Sports
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