miner
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English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmaɪnə(ɹ)/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ)
- Homophones: minor; myna (non-rhotic)
Etymology 1
From mine + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix).
Noun
miner (plural miners)
- 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.
- An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives.
- Any bird of one of several species of South American ovenbirds in the genus Geositta.
- (cryptocurrencies) Software or hardware that mines, or creates new units of cryptocurrency.
- Coordinate term: staker
- (cryptocurrencies) A person who mines cryptocurrency.
Derived terms
- aspen leaf blotch miner moth
- campo miner
- coastal miner
- common miner
- creamy-rumped miner
- dark-winged miner
- data miner
- gold miner, goldminer
- greyish miner
- junior miner
- leaf miner
- leaf-miner
- leaf-miner fly
- long-faced miner bee
- miner's lettuce
- ninja miner
- puna miner
- rufous-banded miner
- short-billed miner
- slender-billed miner
- thick-billed miner
Related terms
Translations
person who works in a mine
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operator of mines and other explosives
software
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Etymology 2
From myna.
Noun
miner (plural miners)
- Any bird of one of four species of Australian endemic honeyeaters in the genus Manorina.
Derived terms
Translations
bird of genus Manorina
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Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
miner m (plural miners, feminine minera, feminine plural mineres)
Noun
miner m (plural miners)
Further reading
- “miner”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies , 2007 April
Danish
Noun
miner c
- indefinite plural of mine
French
Etymology
From mine.
Pronunciation
Verb
miner
- to mine, exploit natural riches
- (transitive) to undermine; to erode
Conjugation
Conjugation of miner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | miner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | minant /mi.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | miné /mi.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | mine /min/ |
mines /min/ |
mine /min/ |
minons /mi.nɔ̃/ |
minez /mi.ne/ |
minent /min/ |
| imperfect | minais /mi.nɛ/ |
minais /mi.nɛ/ |
minait /mi.nɛ/ |
minions /mi.njɔ̃/ |
miniez /mi.nje/ |
minaient /mi.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | minai /mi.ne/ |
minas /mi.na/ |
mina /mi.na/ |
minâmes /mi.nam/ |
minâtes /mi.nat/ |
minèrent /mi.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | minerai /min.ʁe/ |
mineras /min.ʁa/ |
minera /min.ʁa/ |
minerons /min.ʁɔ̃/ |
minerez /min.ʁe/ |
mineront /min.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | minerais /min.ʁɛ/ |
minerais /min.ʁɛ/ |
minerait /min.ʁɛ/ |
minerions /mi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
mineriez /mi.nə.ʁje/ |
mineraient /min.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | mine /min/ |
mines /min/ |
mine /min/ |
minions /mi.njɔ̃/ |
miniez /mi.nje/ |
minent /min/ |
| imperfect2 | minasse /mi.nas/ |
minasses /mi.nas/ |
minât /mi.na/ |
minassions /mi.na.sjɔ̃/ |
minassiez /mi.na.sje/ |
minassent /mi.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | mine /min/ |
— | minons /mi.nɔ̃/ |
minez /mi.ne/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “miner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Latin
Verb
miner
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
miner m or f
- indefinite plural of mine
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
miner f
- indefinite plural of mine
Verb
miner
Romanian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
miner m (plural mineri, feminine equivalent mineră)
- miner (person who works in a mine)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | miner | minerul | mineri | minerii | |
| genitive-dative | miner | minerului | mineri | minerilor | |
| vocative | minerule | minerilor | |||
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- “miner”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025
Swedish
Noun
miner
- indefinite plural of min