miner

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• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪnə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ)
• Homophones: minor; myna (non-rhotic)

From mine +‎ -er (agent noun suffix) or +‎ -er (occupational suffix).

miner (plural miners)

1. 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^[1], 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^[2], volume 411, number 8884, archived from the original on 20 January 2021:

     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.

2. An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives.
3. Any bird of one of several species of South American ovenbirds in the genus Geositta.
4. (cryptocurrencies) Software or hardware that mines, or creates new units of cryptocurrency.

   Coordinate term: staker

   • 2022 January 6, “Kazakhstan internet shutdown deals blow to global bitcoin mining operation”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:

     The move would have probably prevented Kazakhstan-based miners from accessing the bitcoin network.

5. (cryptocurrencies) A person who mines cryptocurrency.
   • 2011 November 23, Benjamin Wallace, “The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin”, in Wired‎^[4], San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2 January 2025:

     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 minutes.

• mine
• mining

From myna.

miner (plural miners)

1. Any bird of one of four species of Australian endemic honeyeaters in the genus Manorina.

• Ermin, ermin, in rem, inerm

From mina +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [miˈne]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [miˈneɾ]

miner m (plural miners, feminine minera, feminine plural mineres)

1. miner (a person who works in a mine)

   Synonym: minaire

miner m (plural miners)

1. miner (bird of the genus Geositta)

• “miner”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

miner c

1. indefinite plural of mine

From mine.

• IPA^(key): /mi.ne/

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miner

1. to mine, exploit natural riches
2. (transitive) to undermine; to erode

• mineur
• terrain miné

• “miner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

miner

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of minor

miner m or f

1. indefinite plural of mine

miner f

1. indefinite plural of mine

miner

1. present of mina

Borrowed from French mineur.

• IPA^(key): /miˈner/

miner m (plural mineri, feminine equivalent mineră)

1. miner (person who works in a mine)

• “miner”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

miner

1. indefinite plural of min