miner

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Etymology 1

From mine +‎ -er (agent noun suffix) or +‎ -er (occupational suffix).

Noun

miner (plural miners)

  1. A person who works in a mine.
    Hyponyms: coalminer, goldminer
    Near-synonyms: mineworker; mineowner
    The group of miners were stuck underground after a shaft caved in.
    • 2005, David G. Atwill, “Shades of Islam: The Muslim Yunnanese”, in The Chinese Sultanate: Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in Southwest China, 1856-1873, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 44:
      Hui from Lin’an—especially those from the village of Huilong—were famously skilled miners and traveled long distances to work mines throughout the province.
    • 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:
      Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
  2. An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives.
  3. Any bird of one of several species of South American ovenbirds in the genus Geositta.
  4. (cryptocurrencies) Software or hardware that mines, or creates new units of cryptocurrency.
    Coordinate term: staker
    • 2022 January 6, “Kazakhstan internet shutdown deals blow to global bitcoin mining operation”, in The Guardian:
      The move would have probably prevented Kazakhstan-based miners from accessing the bitcoin network.
  5. (cryptocurrencies) A person who mines cryptocurrency.
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Etymology 2

From myna.

Noun

miner (plural miners)

  1. Any bird of one of four species of Australian endemic honeyeaters in the genus Manorina.
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Catalan

Etymology

From mina +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

Noun

miner m (plural miners, feminine minera)

  1. miner (a person who works in a mine)
    Synonym: minaire

Noun

miner m (plural miners)

  1. miner (bird of the genus Geositta)

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Danish

Noun

miner c

  1. indefinite plural of mine

French

Etymology

From mine.

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Verb

miner

  1. to mine, exploit natural riches
  2. (transitive) to undermine; to erode

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Latin

Verb

miner

  1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of minor

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

miner m or f

  1. indefinite plural of mine

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

miner f

  1. indefinite plural of mine

Verb

miner

  1. present of mina

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French mineur.

Pronunciation

Noun

miner m (plural mineri, feminine equivalent mineră)

  1. miner (person who works in a mine)

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Swedish

Noun

miner

  1. indefinite plural of min