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diggings

diggings

8.4
A simple place where someone lives for a short time
  • noun
  • /ˈdɪɡɪŋz/
  • Archaic
translation icon : alojamiento
  • After the fire, we had to find new diggings until our house was repaired.

Examples

  • While studying abroad, he stayed in modest diggings near the university.

  • These diggings were temporary shelters during the gold rush.

  • The old prospector invited us to his diggings on the edge of town.

  • The archaeologists camped near their diggings for weeks.

  • While studying abroad, he stayed in modest diggings near the university.

  • After the fire, we had to find new diggings until our house was repaired.

  • The old prospector invited us to his diggings on the edge of town.

Synonyms

pad
vsdiggings
  • Informal
61 7.4

A casual word for a home often meaning a small apartment

is usually more temporary or makeshift rather than a personal home
dugout
vsdiggings
4 6.0

A shelter dug into the ground and covered with earth

is a general temporary or makeshift living place not necessarily underground
digs
vsdiggings
  • Informal
8.2

A room or small home that someone rents to live in

is more makeshift or historically used rather than regular rented rooms
lodgings
vsdiggings
3.3

Temporary rooms you rent to stay in for a short time

is informal or makeshift and often used in older or casual speech

How Comfortable

hotel room
276 1.0
boarding house
  • Archaic
18 2.7
diggings
  • Archaic
8.4
camp
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

diggings plural

Morphology

diggings = digging (opaque) = dig + ing + s

The formation 'dig' + '-ing' is a straightforward nominalization and the plural '-s' is regular.

Etymology

Diggings also came to mean simple, short-term places to live because miners and workers slept in small camps at the diggings. A helpful way to remember this is to picture a miner's tent at the diggings, so diggings can mean 'temporary' lodgings.