Gold Digger (Noun)
Meaning 1
A woman who associates with or marries a rich man in order to get valuables from him through gifts or a divorce settlement.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Hypernyms
Meaning 2
A miner who digs or pans for gold in a gold field.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The old prospector had spent his entire life as a gold digger, searching for the perfect claim in the dusty hills of California.
- As the sun set over the gold field, the lone gold digger packed up his shovel and headed back to his small cabin to rest.
- The group of gold diggers worked together to clear the creek bed of debris and extract the precious metal from the gravel.
- Despite years of searching, the novice gold digger had yet to strike it rich in the crowded gold fields of the Klondike.
- With his worn leather gloves and well-worn pan, the grizzled gold digger was a familiar sight in the small town near the gold rush.