What is the name meaning of MINER. Phrases containing MINER
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MINER
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Hindu, Indian
Mineral
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English
English : variant spelling of Miner.German : nickname, meaning ‘small(er)’, from Latin minor ‘less’, ‘smaller’.French : nickname meaning ‘younger’, from the same word as in 2.
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English
English : occupational name for an engraver, from Old English grafere, græfere ‘engraver’, ‘sculptor’ (Old French graveur). It is possible that the name was also an occupational name for a miner, from Old English grafan ‘to dig’.German (also Gräver) : variant of Graber.
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Irish
Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gormáin and Ó Gormáin ‘son (or descendant) of Gormán’, a personal name from a diminutive of gorm ‘dark blue’, ‘noble’. Compare O’Gorman.English : from the Middle English personal name Gormund, Old English GÄrmund, composed of the elements gÄr ‘spear’ + mund ‘protection’.English : topographic name for someone who lived by or on a triangular patch of land (see Gore).German (Görmann) : variant of Gehrmann.German (Görmann) : of Slavic origin, occupational name for a miner, from Slavic góra ‘mountain’.
Boy/Male
American, British, English
Dark Skinned; Coal Miner
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English
English : variant spelling of Bligh.German : variant of Blei, Bley, a metonymic occupational name for a lead miner or lead worker, from Middle High German blī ‘lead’.Dutch : nickname for a cheerful, happy man, Dutch blij.Swedish : possibly German in origin (see 2 above) or a soldier’s name.Americanized form of a Norwegian habitational name from a farmstead in Hardanger named Bleie, from a river name from Old Norse bleikr ‘gray’, ‘pale’ + vin ‘meadow’.
Girl/Female
Greek American Latin
Wise.
Girl/Female
Latin
A name referring to the Minerva.
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English
English : occupational name for someone who built mines, either for the excavation of coal and other minerals, or as a technique in the medieval art of siege warfare. The word represents an agent derivative of Middle English, Old French mine ‘mine’ (a word of Celtic origin, cognate with Gaelic mein ‘ore’, ‘mine’).
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Jewish (Ashkenazic)
Jewish (Ashkenazic) : Americanized form of a Jewish surname, spelled in various ways, derived from modern German Diamant, Demant ‘diamond’, or Yiddish dime(n)t, going back to Middle High German dÄ«emant (via Latin from Greek adamas ‘unconquerable’, genitive adamantos, a reference to the hardness of the stone). The name is mostly ornamental, one of the many Ashkenazic surnames based on mineral names, though in some cases it may have been adopted by a jeweler.English : variant of Dayman (see Day). Forms with the excrescent d are not found before the 17th century; they are at least in part the result of folk etymology.Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Diamáin ‘descendant of Diamán’, earlier DÃomá or Déamán, a diminutive of DÃoma, itself a pet form of Diarmaid (see McDermott).
Boy/Male
American, British, English
Charcoal Merchant; Coal Miner
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German
German : occupational name or status name from the German word Knapp(e), a variant of Knabe ‘young unmarried man’. In the 15th century this spelling acquired the separate, specialized meanings ‘servant’, ‘apprentice’, or ‘miner’.German : in Franconia, a nickname for a dexterous or skillful person.English : topographic name for someone who lived by a hillock, Middle English knappe, Old English cnæpp, or habitational name from any of the several minor places named with the word, in particular Knapp in Hampshire and Knepp in Sussex.German and western Slavic : variant of Knabe.
Boy/Male
Celtic
St. Piran is the Cornish patron saint of miners.
Boy/Male
American, British, English, French
Coal Miner; Charcoal Merchant
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Indian, Sanskrit
Miner; L Digger
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English
English : variant of Gurney.Altered spelling of Polish Gorny.Possibly an altered spelling of German Gornig, Görnig, occupational names for a miner, from Polish góra ‘mountain’.
Boy/Male
British, English
Coal Miner
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English
Charcoal merchant. Coal miner.
Boy/Male
American, British, English
Charcoal Merchant; Coal Miner
Girl/Female
Latin
A name referring to the Minerva.
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v. t.
To impregnate with a mineral; as, mineralized water.
adv.
According to the principles of, or with reference to, mineralogy.
n.
An element which is combined with a metal, thus forming an ore. Thus, in galena, or lead ore, sulphur is a mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer.
n.
The act of impregnating with a mineral, as water.
a.
Impregnated with minerals; as, mineral waters.
n.
One versed in mineralogy; one devoted to the study of minerals.
n.
The science which treats of minerals, and teaches how to describe, distinguish, and classify them.
pl.
of Mineralogy
v. t.
To transform into a mineral.
v. i.
An inorganic species or substance occurring in nature, having a definite chemical composition and usually a distinct crystalline form. Rocks, except certain glassy igneous forms, are either simple minerals or aggregates of minerals.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Mineralize
v. i.
To go on an excursion for observing and collecting minerals; to mineralogize.
n.
The process of mineralizing, or forming a mineral by combination of a metal with another element; also, the process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant.
n.
One who mines; a digger for metals, etc.; one engaged in the business of getting ore, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; one who digs military mines; as, armies have sappers and miners.
imp. & p. p.
of Mineralize
v. i.
To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals.
a.
Of or pertaining to mineralogy; as, a mineralogical table.
n.
One versed in minerals; mineralogist.
a.
Of or pertaining to minerals; consisting of a mineral or of minerals; as, a mineral substance.
v. i.
Anything which is neither animal nor vegetable, as in the most general classification of things into three kingdoms (animal, vegetable, and mineral).