toil

B2 Topic:General Vocabulary

US /tɔɪl/ See IPA manual

Freq #16090

Meanings

1

noun
Hard, tiring work.

After years of toil, they finally owned their farm.
2

verb
To work very hard, often for a long time.

They toiled in the fields from dawn until dusk.

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Synonyms

1 noun · hard, tiring work. drudgery labor sweat

2 verb · to work very hard, often... labour

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Forms toiledtoilingtoils

Derived forms toiler toilsome

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Etymology

From Middle English toilen, toylen, apparently a conflation of Anglo-Norman toiller (“to agitate, stir up, entangle”) (compare Old Northern French tooillier, tooullier (“to agitate, stir”); of unknown origin), and Middle English tilyen, telien, teolien, tolen, tolien, tulien (“to till, work, labour”), from Old English tilian, telian, teolian, tiolian (“to exert oneself, toil, work, make, generate, strive after, try, endeavor, procure, obtain, gain, provide, tend, cherish, cultivate, till, plough, trade, traffic, aim at, aspire to, treat, cure”) (compare Middle Dutch tuylen, teulen (“to till, w…

toilen, toylen Middle English toiller xno tilyen, telien, teolien, tolen, tolien, tulien Middle English tilian, telian, teolian, tiolian Old English *tilōną Proto-Germanic tuylen, teulen Middle Dutch

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# toil

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B2
**Part of speech:** noun, verb
**IPA (US):** /tɔɪl/
**Frequency rank:** 16090

## Meanings
1. Hard, tiring work.
2. To work very hard, often for a long time.

## Examples
- After years of toil, they finally owned their farm.
- They toiled in the fields from dawn until dusk.

## Derived Forms
- toiler
- toilsome

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: toilen, toylen
- Root: toiller
- Root: tilyen, telien, teolien, tolen, tolien, tulien
- Root: tilian, telian, teolian, tiolian
- Root: *tilōną
- Root: tuylen, teulen

## Etymology
From Middle English toilen, toylen, apparently a conflation of Anglo-Norman toiller (“to agitate, stir up, entangle”) (compare Old Northern French tooillier, tooullier (“to agitate, stir”); of unknown origin), and Middle English tilyen, telien, teolien, tolen, tolien, tulien (“to till, work, labour”), from Old English tilian, telian, teolian, tiolian (“to exert oneself, toil, work, make, generate, strive after, try, endeavor, procure, obtain, gain, provide, tend, cherish, cultivate, till, plough, trade, traffic, aim at, aspire to, treat, cure”) (compare Middle Dutch tuylen, teulen (“to till, w…

## AI Etymology
Toil is from Middle English toilen, toylen, apparently a conflation of Anglo-Norman toiller (“to agitate, stir up, entangle”) (compare Old Northern French tooillier, tooullier (“to agitate, stir”); of unknown origin), and Middle English tilyen, telien, teolien, tolen, tolien, tulien (“to till, work, labour”), from Old English tilian, telian, teolian, tiolian (“to exert oneself, toil, work, make, generate, strive after, try, endeavor, procure, obtain, gain, provide, tend, cherish, cultivate, till, plough, trade, traffic, aim at, aspire to, treat, cure”)

## Topics
- General Vocabulary

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