miner B2 Topic:Technology & Computing 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 minemining Common collocations coal miner Noun + noun Etymology AI details From mine + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix). Topics Technology & Computing External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # 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 - Technology & Computing markdown