miner
/ˈmaɪnə(ɹ)/
miner noun: a person who works in a mine.
Noun (1)
miner (plural miners)
- A person who works in a mine.
- Near-synonyms: mineworker; mineowner
- The group of miners were stuck underground after a shaft caved in.
- Synonyms:
- mineworker, mineowner
- An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives.
- Any bird of one of several species of South American ovenbirds in the genus Geositta.
- Software or hardware that mines, or creates new units of cryptocurrency.
- The move would have probably prevented Kazakhstan-based miners from accessing the bitcoin network.2022 January 6, “Kazakhstan internet shutdown deals blow to global bitcoin mining operation”, in The Guardian
- A person who mines cryptocurrency.
- The first miner to solve each puzzle would be awarded 50 new bitcoins, and the associated block of transactions would be added to the chain. The difficulty of each puzzle would increase as the number of miners increased, which would keep production to one block of transactions roughly every 10...2011 November 23, Benjamin Wallace, “The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2025
Noun (2)
miner (plural miners)
Proper noun capitalized: Miner
Miner (countable and uncountable, plural Miners)
- A surname.
- A minor city in Mississippi County and Scott County, Missouri, United States.
miner meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
miner in Hindi
- खनिक, खननकर्ता
miner in Tamil
- சுரங்கத் தொழிலாளி, சுரங்கவேலை பார்ப்பவர், சுரங்கப் பாதை தோண்டுபவர்
miner in Marathi
- खनिक
miner in Urdu
- کانکن
More languagesFewer languages
- miner in Bengali
- খনিশ্রমিক, খনিজীবী
- miner in Telugu
- గనుల కార్మికుడు
- miner in Malayalam
- ധാതുപദാർത്ഥം കുഴിച്ചെടുക്കുന്നവൻ, ഖനിജോലിക്കാരൻ
- miner in Kannada
- ಗಣಿ ಕೆಲಸದವನು, ಗಣಿಗಾರ, ಖನನಕಾರ, ಸಿಡಿಮದ್ದನ್ನು ಹುದುಗಿಡುವವನು
- miner in Odia
- ଖଣିଚାଷୀ
- miner in Sanskrit
- खनक khanaka
- miner in Nepali
- खनिक
- miner in Tagalog
- mandudulang
- miner in Persian
- کارگر معدن kârgar-e ma'dan, معدنچی ma'danči
- miner in Vietnamese
- thợ mỏ
Examples of miner in a sentence
- 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.2005, David G. Atwill, “Shades of Islam: The Muslim Yunnanese”, in The Chinese Sultanate: Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in...
- 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.2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2021:
- The first miner to solve each puzzle would be awarded 50 new bitcoins, and the associated block of transactions would be added to the chain.2011 November 23, Benjamin Wallace, “The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC...
Synonyms of miner
Forms of miner
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | miners |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Miners |
Origin of miner
From mine + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix).
From myna.
Words formed from miner
- bell miner
- black-eared miner
- noisy miner
- yellow-throated miner
- Miner County
- aspen leaf blotch miner moth
- campo miner
- coalminer
- coastal miner
- common miner
- creamy-rumped miner
- cryptominer
- dark-winged miner
- data miner
- freeminer
- gold miner
- goldminer
- greyish miner
- junior miner
- leaf-miner
- leaf miner
- leaf-miner fly
- lodgepole needle miner
- long-faced miner bee
- Miner's Candlestick
- miner's lettuce
- miners safety candlestick
- ninja miner
- nonminer
- puna miner
- rufous-banded miner
- short-billed miner
- slender-billed miner
- thick-billed miner
Phrases with miner
Words that rhyme with miner
Questions about miner
- What does miner mean?
- Miner means a person who works in a mine.
- What is miner in Hindi?
- Miner in Hindi is खनिक, खननकर्ता. See Miner meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use miner in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is miner?
- Miner can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce miner?
- Miner is pronounced /ˈmaɪnə(ɹ)/.
- What is the plural of miner?
- The plural of miner is miners.
Words near miner in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: miner (page history and authors); Miner (page history and authors); miner (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); miner (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); miner (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); miner (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); miner (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); miner (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); miner (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); miner (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); miner (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); खनक (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); miner (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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