goldminer

English

Etymology

From gold +‎ miner.

Noun

goldminer (plural goldminers)

1. Somebody who mines for gold.

   Synonym: gold digger (but this term is usually used in its figurative sense)

   Hypernym: miner

   Hyponyms: forty-niner, 49er

Alternative forms

• gold miner

Related terms

• gold bug
• gold fever
• gold mine
• mineowner
• mineworker

 

Translations

Somebody who mines for gold

• Irish: mianadóir óir m
• Maori: kaikari kōura
• Ottoman Turkish: آلتونجی (altıncı)

See also

• prospector (sometimes coinstantial)

 

Anagrams

• moldering, remolding