miners
- 1Plural of miner.
The miners staged a strike over unsafe working conditions deep underground.
Rescuers reached the trapped miners three days after the collapse.
Note
A regular plural that carries every meaning of miner at once: underground workers, soldiers who handle explosive mines, people or machines that mine cryptocurrency, and two different groups of birds, the South American ovenbirds of the genus Geositta and the Australian honeyeaters of the genus Manorina. The possessive puts the apostrophe after the s: the miners' strike, the miners' lamps.
miners is a form of miner
miner, noun: A worker employed in a mine, extracting coal, ore, or other materials from beneath the ground. Full entry
- Forms
- minerminers plural
- Spelling
- miner → miners: add -s
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