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Minion vs Worker - What's the difference?

minion | worker |

As nouns the difference between minion and worker

is that minion is a loyal servant of another, usually a more powerful being while worker is a person who performs labor for his living, especially manual labor.

As an adjective minion

is favoured, beloved; "pet".

minion

English

(wikipedia minion)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A loyal servant of another, usually a more powerful being.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=Kevin Heng
    • , title= Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily? , volume=101, issue=3, page=184, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter.}}
  • A sycophantic follower.
  • (obsolete) A loved one; one highly esteemed and favoured.
  • * Sylvester
    • God's disciple and his dearest minion
  • * William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens , IV-III
    • Is this the Athenian minion whom the world / Voiced so regardfully?
  • (obsolete) An ancient form of ordnance with a calibre of about three inches.
    • (Beaumont and Fletcher)
  • (typography, uncountable) A size of type smaller than brevier but larger than nonpareil, roughly equivalent to 7pt.
    • (Burton)

    Synonyms

    * (loyal servant) disciple, follower, henchman, stooge, toady

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Favoured, beloved; "pet".
  • *, vol.1, p.148:
    • These favours, with the commodities that follow minion Courtiers, corrupthis libertie, and dazle his judgement.

    worker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who performs labor for his living, especially manual labor.
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  • A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite or wasp.
  • # (label) A female ant, bee, termite or wasp.
  • (label) A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program.

    • Synonyms

    * (person who performs labor) laborer, labourer

    Derived terms

    * freezing worker * sex worker * steelworker

    Anagrams

    * English agent nouns