Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🏈 Football team 🎓 College team ⛏️ Gold seekers
Niners

Niners

1 9.9
People who went to California in 1849 to look for gold
  • noun
  • /ˈnaɪnərz/
  • Archaic
: buscador de oro
  • Thousands of hopeful Niners traveled across the country to join the gold rush in California.

Examples

  • Many Niners faced harsh conditions and disappointment despite their dreams of wealth.

  • The museum displayed artifacts used by the Niners during their search for gold.

  • The Niners traveled west in search of gold.

  • Many Niners faced harsh conditions during the gold rush.

  • Thousands of hopeful Niners traveled across the country to join the gold rush in California.

  • The museum displayed artifacts used by the Niners during their search for gold.

  • Many Niners faced harsh conditions and disappointment despite their dreams of wealth.

Synonyms

prospector
vsNiners
20 5.1

A person who explores land to find minerals like gold or oil

is specific to the 1849 gold rush rather than general mineral searching
forty-niner
vsNiners
  • US
2 9.4

A person who went to California in 1849 to look for gold

is identical in meaning but uses a different name form
rusher
vsNiners
  • Archaic
1 6.8

A person who moves quickly to a new area during a gold rush

focuses on 1849 participation rather than migration speed

Surface Forms

Niners plural
Niner singular

Morphology

Niners = 49er (semi-transparent) = 49 + er + s

Formed from the numeral '49' + '-er' with plural '-s'; the morphological formation is clear but the specific historical meaning requires knowledge of the 1849 Gold Rush.

Etymology

Niners comes from the name '49ers', given to people who went to California in 1849 to look for gold. So Niners means the gold-seekers from that year.