goldmine
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- noun
- /ˈɡoʊlˌmaɪn/
- Informal
:
mina de oro
- Her extensive collection of rare books is a goldmine for researchers studying 19th-century literature.
And if you can find that, that like you got a goldmine of potential.
- And if you can find that, that like you got a goldmine of potential.
- How long did it take you to hit your next like goldmine?
- I mean, she's going to be a marketing goldmine.
- The reality is, my friends, most people don't think of this opportunity as a goldmine, and that's how I see it.
- And to get there, focus on the goldmine genres, build that relationship, get noticed, then the steps will follow.
- Eleanor then realized that she had a goldmine and she is the one, and it's fully to her credit who realized that.
Examples
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The educational outreach staff at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific hit upon an intellectual goldmine when they created Family ASTRO.
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Burma is a goldmine of natural resources.
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Could have been a goldmine of information.
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What you people discovered is an even bigger goldmine than we ever thought possible.
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And it is always a goldmine of stunning and wonderful things to know.
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We're sitting on a goldmine.
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The Archive of American Television is a goldmine.
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Often, we're sitting on a goldmine of content assets that we don't even realize.
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Although designed to tell professional scientists how they can help, it is a goldmine of information for teachers and principals interested in reaching these organizations.
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LinkedIn is a goldmine of opportunity to create micro-content!
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Synonyms
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A time that brings a large unexpected amount of money or success
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A source of many useful things like information or money
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6.8
A large rich source of valuable things like gold or information
A place or thing that has valuable information not easy to find
Antonyms
How Valuable
- Informal
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Morphology
Etymology
Goldmine comes from the real goldmine where people dig for gold. Because a real goldmine gives a lot of something valuable, we call anything that gives many useful things a goldmine, meaning 'a rich source'.