salt mine
salt mine noun: any mine used for the extraction of salt.
Noun
salt mine (plural salt mines)
- Any mine used for the extraction of salt.
- Any laborious work situation, especially in a confined space.
- An abundance of indignation felt by one person or a group of people due to over-sensitivity, humourlessness, disappointment, or defeat; a gold mine (sense 3) of salt (noun sense 11).
- The fan forum was an absolute salt mine after the football team's loss to the last-place team in its division.
salt mine meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Persian
salt mine in Hindi
- a salt mine or salt lake
- रुमा rumā
salt mine in Tamil
- உப்புச் சுரங்கம்
salt mine in Persian
- mine
- معدن نمک ma'dan-e namak
Forms of salt mine
| plural | salt mines |
|---|---|
| alternative form | saltmine |
Questions about salt mine
- What does salt mine mean?
- Salt mine means any mine used for the extraction of salt.
- What is salt mine in Hindi?
- Salt mine in Hindi is रुमा (rumā). See Salt mine meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is salt mine?
- Salt mine is a noun.
- What is the plural of salt mine?
- The plural of salt mine is salt mines.
Words near salt mine in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: salt mine (page history and authors); रुमा (Hindi) (page history and authors); salt mine (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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