# miner
## English

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### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmaɪnə(ɹ)/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ)
* Homophones: minor; myna (non-rhotic)

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

miner (plural miners)
* A person who works in a mine.
    Hyponyms: coalminer, goldminer
    Near-synonyms: mineworker; mineowner
    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.
* An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives.
* Any bird of one of several species of South American ovenbirds in the genus Geositta.
* (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.
* (cryptocurrencies) A person who mines cryptocurrency.

##### Derived terms

* aspen leaf blotch miner moth
* campo miner
* coastal miner
* common miner
* creamy-rumped miner
* dark-winged miner
* data miner
* gold miner, goldminer
* greyish miner
* junior miner
* leaf miner
* leaf-miner
* leaf-miner fly
* long-faced miner bee
* miner's lettuce
* ninja miner
* puna miner
* rufous-banded miner
* short-billed miner
* slender-billed miner
* thick-billed miner

##### Related terms

* mine
* mining

##### Translations

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### Etymology 2

From myna.

#### Noun

miner (plural miners)
* Any bird of one of four species of Australian endemic honeyeaters in the genus Manorina.

##### Derived terms

* bell miner
* black-eared miner
* noisy miner
* yellow-throated miner

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* Ermin, ermin, in rem, inerm

## Catalan
### Etymology

From mina +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [miˈne]
* IPA: (Valencia) [miˈneɾ]

### Noun

miner m (plural miners, feminine minera)
* miner (a person who works in a mine)
    Synonym: minaire

### Noun

miner m (plural miners)
* miner (bird of the genus Geositta)

### Further reading

* “miner” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Danish
### Noun

miner c
* indefinite plural of mine

## French
### Etymology

From mine.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mi.ne/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

miner
* to mine, exploit natural riches
* (transitive) to undermine; to erode

#### Derived terms

* mineur
* terrain miné

### Further reading

* “miner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Latin
### Verb

miner
* first-person singular present active subjunctive of minor

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

miner m or f
* indefinite plural of mine

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

miner f
* indefinite plural of mine

### Verb

miner
* present of mina

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French mineur.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miˈner/

### Noun

miner m (plural mineri, feminine equivalent mineră)
* miner (person who works in a mine)

#### Derived terms

* mineri
* minerire
* minerit
* mineriță

#### Related terms

* mina
* minare
* mină

### References

* miner in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Swedish
### Noun

miner
* indefinite plural of min