miner

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪnə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ)
• Homophones: minor, myna (in non-rhotic accents)

mine +‎ -er

miner (plural miners)

1. A person who works in a mine.

   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, 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, volume 411, number 8884:

     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:

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

5. (cryptocurrencies) A person who mines cryptocurrency.

• 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): (Valencian) [miˈneɾ]

miner m (plural miners, feminine minera)

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, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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)

miner

1. indefinite plural of min