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mine

/maɪ̯n/

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/ˈmaɪ.ɪn/

mine pronoun: used predicatively. Also the alternative form of mien.

Pronoun (1)

mine (plural mine)

  1. Used predicatively.
    • The house itself is mine, but the land is not.
    • These books are mine.
  2. Used substantively, with an implied noun.
    • Mine has been a long journey.
    • ‘My name’s Felix Leiter,’ said the American. ‘Glad to meet you.’ ‘Mine’s Bond - James Bond.’1953, Ian Fleming, “Rouge et Noir”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 50
  3. Used absolutely, set off from the sentence.
    • Mine for only a week so far, it already feels like an old friend.
  4. (informal) My house or home.
    • We had the party at mine.
  5. As double possessive.
    • This house of mine is over 100 years old.
    • You have something of mine.

Determiner

mine

  1. (archaic, nonstandard) My; belonging to me.
    • Well, then, fix it up nice, waiter, and make mine baked hash an’ mashed ’taters and stewed corn and waiter!—plain white bread, no fancy rolls!1936 December 23, Hazel Livingston, “‘Love’s Litany’”, in Walter V. Hogan, editor, The Daily Reporter, volume XX, number 53, White Plains, N.Y.: White Plains Publishing Company, →OCLC, chapter IX...
    1. (archaic, nonstandard) Used attributively after the noun it modifies.
      • […] Flesh and blood, / You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition, / […]1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...
    2. (archaic, nonstandard) Used attributively before a vowel.
      • Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / […]1862 February, Julia Ward Howe, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume IX, number LII, page 10
      • Mine host, it seemed, did favors for everybody...1930 Winter, Packard Motor Car Company, The Packard Magazine, Volume 9, Number 2, page 6

Noun

mine (plural mines)

  1. An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
    • Meronyms: mine shaft, mineshaft; mine car
    • This diamond comes from a mine in South Africa.
  2. (figuratively) Any source of wealth or resources.
    • She's a mine of information about the history of mathematics.
    • To those seeking information about train services on the Continent, Cook's Continental Guide is always a mine of accurate information.1962 December, “Beyond the Channel: U.S.S.R.: Train speeds still rising”, in Modern Railways, page 418
  3. A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
    • The most famous mine of the American Civil War led to the Battle of the Crater.
  4. A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
    • Holonym: minefield
    • His left leg was blown off after he stepped on a mine.
  5. (pyrotechnics) A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
  6. The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
  7. A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
    • A change to the blockchain method was contemplated to allow mines to hog less electric power.

Verb

mine (third-person singular simple present mines, present participle mining, simple past and past participle mined)

  1. (ambitransitive) To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.
    • Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only place in the world where visitors can mine their own diamonds.
  2. To dig into, for ore or metal.
    • Lead veins have been traced […] but they have not been mined.1837, Andrew Ure, Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines
  3. (transitive) To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
    • We had to slow our advance after the enemy mined the road ahead of us.
  4. (transitive) To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
  5. (intransitive) To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
    • the mining cony
  6. To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
    • They mined the walls.a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC
    • Too lazy, perhaps, to cut [these immense trees] down, the spoilers […] had mined them, and placed a quantity of gunpowder in the cavity.1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London...
  7. (broadly, figuratively) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
  8. (broadly, figuratively) To tap into.
  9. (slang) To pick one's nose.
  10. To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
    • Bitcoin supporters say that estimates of its carbon footprint are overstated. And if the computers that mine and help transact bitcoins are attached to an electric grid that uses wind and solar power, they add, mining and using it will become cleaner over time.2021 March 9, Andrew Ross Sorkin, “Bitcoin's Climate Problem”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Pronoun (2) capitalized: Mine

Mine

  1. (honorific) Honorific alternative letter-case form of mine, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.

Also used as

mine is also the alternative form of mien.

mine meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

mine in Hindi

that which belongs to me
मेरा merā, मेरी merī, मेरे mere
excavation from which ore is extracted
खान khān
military: passage packed with explosives
सुरंग suraṅg
military: exploding device
सुरंग बम suraṅg bam, बारूदी बम bārūdī bam

mine in Tamil

என்னுடையது, சுரங்கம்

mine in Urdu

that which belongs to me
میرا merā
excavation from which ore is extracted
کان kān, معدن ma'din

mine in Bengali

আমার, আমারটা, খনি
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mine in Telugu
గని gani
mine in Malayalam
എന്റെ enṟe, ഖനി khani
mine in Punjabi
ਮੇਰਾ
mine in Gujarati
ખાણ khāṇ
mine in Odia
ଖଣି khaṇi
mine in Assamese
খনি khoni
mine in Nepali
खानी
mine in Pashto
معدن ma'dán, کان kān
mine in Tagalog
akin, dukalan, mina, dulangan
mine in Arabic
لِي lī, لي leya, بتاعي betaʕi, حَقِّي ḥaggi
mine in Malay
milik saya, kepunyaan saya, milik aku, milik daku
mine in Indonesian
tambang, ranjau
mine in Persian
مال من mâle man, مرا marâ, کان kân, معدن ma'dan
mine in Thai
นของผม kŏng pŏm, นของดิฉัน kŏng dìchăn, นของฉัน, เหมือง mʉ̌ʉang
mine in Vietnamese
của tôi, mỏ, mìn
mine in Myanmar
သတ္တုတွင်း sattu.twang:, မိုင်း muing:
Kashmiri
کھان khān, سۄرَنٛگ sọrang, سۄرَنٛگ بَم sọrang bam, باروٗدی بَم bārūdy bam

Examples of mine in a sentence

  • He came out of the coal mine with a face covered in black.
  • Most coal and ore comes from open-pit mines nowadays.
  • The warship was destroyed by floating mines.

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Forms of mine

Pronoun
pluralmine
alternative form (obsolete)myne
Noun
pluralmines
Verb
third-person singular presentmines
present participlemining
past participlemined
pastmined

Past tense of mine: mined

Plural of mine: mines

Origin of mine

From Middle English min, myn, from Old English mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos. Cognate with Saterland Frisian mien, West Frisian myn, Dutch mijn, Low German mien, German mein, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish min, Faroese and Icelandic mín.

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French mine, from Late Latin mina, from Gaulish (compare to Welsh mwyn, Irish mianach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *meinis (“ore, metal”).

Borrowed from French mine.

Words formed from mine

Phrases with mine

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Words that rhyme with mine

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Questions about mine

What does mine mean?
Mine means used predicatively.
What is mine in Hindi?
Mine in Hindi is मेरा (merā), मेरी (merī), मेरे (mere). See Mine meaning in Hindi.
How do you use mine in a sentence?
He came out of the coal mine with a face covered in black.
What part of speech is mine?
Mine can be a pronoun, a determiner, a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce mine?
Mine is pronounced /maɪ̯n/.

Words near mine in the dictionary

  1. mindwiped
  2. mindwipes
  3. mindwiping
  4. mindy
  5. Mindyallan
  6. mine
  7. mine car
  8. mine dial
  9. mine dials
  10. mine field
  11. mine fields

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mine (page history and authors); Mine (page history and authors); mine (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mine (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mine (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mine (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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