mines
/maɪnz/
mines is the plural of mine.
mines is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mine.
mines is the alternative form of mine.
Meaning of mine
Noun
mine (plural mines)
- An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
- Meronyms: mine shaft, mineshaft; mine car
- Any source of wealth or resources.
- She's a mine of information about the history of mathematics.
- 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.
- A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
- Holonym: minefield
- A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
- The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
Origin of mines
Variation of mine, formed with the final -s of the other possessive pronouns: ours, yours, theirs, etc.
Phrases with mines
Words that rhyme with mines
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- argentines
- bines
- bread lines
- breadlines
- brines
- carbines
- clementines
- co-signs
- coal mines
- coalmines
- colour outside the lines
- cosigns
- cosines
- defines
- designs
- dines
- fine lines
- fuel lines
- gas lines
- kines
- maligns
- misdefines
- ninety-nines
- number nines
- overdefines
- overlines
- overmines
- pines
- redefines
- refines
- relines
- serpentines
- shines
- shrines
- signs
- sixty-nines
- spines
- sublines
- telephone lines
- turpentines
- undefines
- underdefines
- underlines
- undermines
- vines
- water lines
- waterlines
- whines
Questions about mines
- What is mines the plural of?
- Mines is the plural of mine.
- How do you pronounce mines?
- Mines is pronounced /maɪnz/.
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