laborant

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/ˈleɪbəɹənt/

noun

A chemist.

OriginLatin labōrāns →
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Meanings

nounlaborant (plural laborants)

plural laborants

  1. obsoleteA chemist.

    [T]he Laborant, vvell vers'd in vveighing, vvas order'd to take it out vvhen 'tvvas throughly and highly heated, and to vveigh it vvhilſt 'tvvas in that condition (I being then preſent:) […]

    1673, Robert Boyle, “New Experiments to Make the Parts of Fire and Flame Stable & Ponderable”, in Essays of the Strange Subtilty, Great Efficacy, Determinate Nature of Effluviums. […], London: […] W[illiam] G[odbid] for M[oses] Pitt, […], →OCLC, experiment VIII, page 13

Origin

  1. Latinlabōrāns
  2. Englishlaborant

From Latin labōrāns, present participle of labōrō. See laboratory.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

balatron
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APA

laborant. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/laborant

MLA

“laborant.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/laborant. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “laborant,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/laborant.

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