Definitions For Mine

noun

  • Explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel
  • Excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted
  • A pit or tunnel from which minerals (such as coal, gold, diamonds, etc.) are taken
  • A bomb that is placed in the ground or in water and that explodes when it is touched
  • A rich source of something (such as information)

verb

  • Lay mines
  • Get from the earth by excavation
  • To dig a mine in order to find and take away coal, gold, diamonds, etc.
  • To find and take away (coal, gold, diamonds, etc.) from a mine
  • To search for something valuable in (something)

Is Mine a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
6
Words with Friends
8

The word Mine is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Mine in a Sentence

  • A baseball fanatic who is a mine of fascinating trivia about the game
  • The soldiers were careful to disarm any mines they found in their path
  • The area was soon filled with prospectors who were mining for gold.
  • Prospectors mined the region for diamonds.
  • Local people were hired to mine the gold.

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