mine.
That or those belonging to me.
Meaning & usage
That or those belonging to me. Used predicatively.
The house itself is mine, but the land is not.
These books are mine.
That or those belonging to me. Used substantively, with an implied noun.
Mine has been a long journey.
That or those belonging to me. Used absolutely, set off from the sentence.
Mine for only a week so far, it already feels like an old friend.
That or those belonging to me. My house or home.
We had the party at mine.
That or those belonging to me. As double possessive.
This house of mine is over 100 years old.
You have something of mine.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English min, myn, from Old English mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos. Cognate with Saterland Frisian mien, West Frisian myn, Dutch mijn, Low German mien, German mein, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish min, Faroese and Icelandic mín.
My; belonging to me.
My; belonging to me. Used attributively after the noun it modifies.
My; belonging to me. Used attributively before a vowel.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English min, myn, from Old English mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos. Cognate with Saterland Frisian mien, West Frisian myn, Dutch mijn, Low German mien, German mein, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish min, Faroese and Icelandic mín.
An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
This diamond comes from a mine in South Africa.
He came out of the coal mine with a face covered in black.
Any source of wealth or resources.
She's a mine of information about the history of mathematics.
A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
The most famous mine of the American Civil War led to the Battle of the Crater.
A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
His left leg was blown off after he stepped on a mine.
The warship was destroyed by floating mines.
A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
A change to the blockchain method was contemplated to allow mines to hog less electric power.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English [Term?], from Old French mine, from Late Latin mina, from Gaulish (compare to Welsh mwyn, Irish mianach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *meinis (“ore, metal”).
To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.
Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only place in the world where visitors can mine their own diamonds.
To dig into, for ore or metal.
To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
We had to slow our advance after the enemy mined the road ahead of us.
To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
the mining cony
To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
To tap into.
To pick one's nose.
To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English [Term?], from Old French mine, from Late Latin mina, from Gaulish (compare to Welsh mwyn, Irish mianach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *meinis (“ore, metal”).
Alternative form of mien.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from French mine.
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