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GOLD MINER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gold miner mean?
• GOLD MINER (noun)
The noun GOLD MINER has 1 sense:
1. a miner who digs or pans for gold in a gold field
Familiarity information: GOLD MINER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A miner who digs or pans for gold in a gold field
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
gold digger; gold miner; gold panner
Hypernyms ("gold miner" is a kind of...):
miner; mineworker (laborer who works in a mine)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gold miner"):
forty-niner (a miner who took part in the California gold rush in 1849)
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