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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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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[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, 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[2]:
      The move would have probably prevented Kazakhstan-based miners from accessing the bitcoin network.
  5. (cryptocurrencies) A person who mines cryptocurrency.
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Etymology 2

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From myna

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miner (plural miners)

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

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Etymology

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From mina +‎ -er.

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miner m (plural miners, feminine minera)

  1. miner (a person who works in a mine)
    Synonym: minaire

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miner m (plural miners)

  1. miner (bird of the genus Geositta)

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Danish

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Noun

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miner c

  1. indefinite plural of mine

French

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Etymology

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From mine.

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miner

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

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Latin

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miner

  1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of minor

Norwegian Bokmål

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miner m or f

  1. indefinite plural of mine

Norwegian Nynorsk

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miner f

  1. indefinite plural of mine

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miner

  1. present of mina

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French mineur.

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miner m (plural mineri, feminine equivalent mineră)

  1. miner (person who works in a mine)

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Swedish

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miner

  1. indefinite plural of min