Mine
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /maɪ̯n/ · Part of speech pronoun
Quick meaning: Mine is a pronoun meaning That or those belonging to me.
Meaning
That or those belonging to me.
More Meanings
- An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
- (figurative) Any source of wealth or resources.
- (military) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
- (military) A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
- (pyrotechnics) A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
- (entomology) The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
- (archaic or nonstandard) My; belonging to me.
Example Sentences
Meronyms: mine shaft, mineshaft; mine car
This diamond comes from a mine in South Africa.
Most coal and ore comes from open-pit mines nowadays.
He came out of the coal mine with a face covered in black.
Word Forms
- mines
- mining
- mined
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include colliery, quarry, coalmine, excavation, coal, drainage.
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