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GOLD DIGGER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman who associates with or marries a rich man in order to get valuables from him through gifts or a divorce settlement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("gold digger" is a kind of...):

adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

gold digger; gold miner; gold panner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("gold digger" is a kind of...):

miner; mineworker (laborer who works in a mine)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gold digger"):

forty-niner (a miner who took part in the California gold rush in 1849)

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