prospector
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5.1
- noun
- /prəˈspɛktər/
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buscador de minerales
- After months of searching, the prospector finally struck a rich vein of silver.
- gold prospectors
- biodiversity prospectors
- the old prospector
This is this is a collab we did with the magic miners, who are actual prospectors and they own the claim to Crystal Mountain.
- This is this is a collab we did with the magic miners, who are actual prospectors and they own the claim to Crystal Mountain.
Examples
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In 1863, Anglo-American prospectors located placer gold in the Prescott highlands and founded Prescott.
Academic text (1998) -
Popular with prospectors of the time, the pistol still had three bullets in its five chambers.
Academic text (2002) -
And let some old prospector beat us to the gold?
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Never knew a prospector yet that died rich.
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And somewhere in that nowhere was another lone prospector.
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This is the great challenge that all prospectors face.
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Time turned the hungry prospector into an unlikely Western folk hero.
Academic text (2002) -
"Hardly a year went by without four or five prospectors losing their lives.
Fiction book (2000) -
The National Association of Prospectors is gonna honor you with the Golden Pickaxe.
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And you can almost imagine a sort of grizzled prospector pulling his mule along, coming out from behind one of those sand dunes.
Synonyms
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5.3
A person who digs or pans for gold at a mine
How Experienced
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Prospector comes from Latin parts pro- meaning 'forward' and spect meaning 'to look', the same root you see in inspect. So a prospector is someone who 'looks forward' into the ground to find gold, oil, or other valuable things.