miner

B2 Topic:People & Society

US /ˈmaɪnə(ɹ)/ See IPA manual

Homophones

minor /ˈmaɪ.nəɹ/

Freq #13882

Meanings

1

noun
A person who works in a mine, digging out coal, metal, or minerals.

The coal miners spent long hours deep underground.
2

noun
A person, or the software or hardware, that creates new cryptocurrency by validating transactions.

Bitcoin miners use powerful computers to solve complex puzzles.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a person who works in a... mineworker

Word family

Forms miners

Derived forms coalminercryptominerfreeminergoldminerleaf-minernonminer

Related forms mine mining

Appears in

Phrases (1)

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coal miner
a worker who extracts coal from the ground

Noun + noun

Etymology

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

Topics

People & Society

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# miner

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B2
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈmaɪnə(ɹ)/
**Frequency rank:** 13882

## Meanings
1. A person who works in a mine, digging out coal, metal, or minerals.
2. A person, or the software or hardware, that creates new cryptocurrency by validating transactions.

## Examples
- The coal miners spent long hours deep underground.
- Bitcoin miners use powerful computers to solve complex puzzles.

## Derived Forms
- coalminer
- cryptominer
- freeminer
- goldminer
- leaf-miner
- nonminer

## Related Forms
- mine
- mining

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

## AI Etymology
Miner comes from mine + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix). The surrounding word family includes derived forms such as coalminer, cryptominer, freeminer, and goldminer and related forms such as mine and mining. In present use it covers a person who works in a mine, digging out coal, metal, or minerals and a person, or the software or hardware, that creates new cryptocurrency by validating transactions.

## Topics
- People & Society

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