gold miner

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsgold diggergold panner

   Broaderminer

   Narrowerforty-niner

Questions about gold miner

What does gold miner mean?

gold miner means "a miner who digs or pans for gold in a gold field".

What is another word for gold miner?

Close synonyms include gold digger, 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 miner a common word?

gold miner is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.