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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:
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)