FORTY-NINER

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A miner who took part in the California gold rush in 1849

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Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("forty-niner" is a kind of...):

gold digger; gold miner; gold panner (a miner who digs or pans for gold in a gold field)

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