worker Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a person who works at a specific occupation
    • he is a good worker
  2. noun a member of the working class (not necessarily employed)
    proletarian; prole.
    • workers of the world--unite!
  3. noun sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae
  4. noun a person who acts and gets things done
    doer; actor.
    • he's a principal actor in this affair
    • when you want something done get a doer
    • he's a miracle worker

WordNet

Work"er noun
Definitions
  1. One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.
    Professors of holiness, but workers of iniquity. Shak.
  2. (Zoöl.) One of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of the social ants, bees, and white ants. The workers are generally females having the sexual organs imperfectly developed. See Ant, and White ant, under White.

Webster 1913