gold digger

1. 1.

   a miner who digs or pans for gold in a gold field

   Synonymsgold minergold panner

   Broaderminer

   Narrowerforty-niner
2. 2.

   a woman who associates with or marries a rich man in order to get valuables from him through gifts or a divorce settlement

   Broaderwoman

Questions about gold digger

What does gold digger mean?

gold digger means "a miner who digs or pans for gold in a gold field". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for gold digger?

Close synonyms include gold miner, gold panner. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gold digger a common word?

gold digger is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.