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Meaning of "diggings" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DIGGINGS

diggings  [ˈdɪɡɪŋz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DIGGINGS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Diggings is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DIGGINGS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Diggings

The Diggings was a colloquial term for the gold rush locations in Australia and the United States beginning in the 1850s. Gold miners - the diggers - would describe their journey "to the diggings" and say they were "at the diggings." Because of the speed at which a "rush" to a particular location might occur, or at which it might be abandoned at news of another rush, the term diggings tended to apply to general areas. In Victoria, some of the major diggings were Ballarat, Bendigo, Mount Alexander or Forest Creek, Ovens Valley and Omeo. In the US the major gold rushes were the California gold rush, the Colorado gold rush and the Alaska gold rush. As surface gold diminished and mining companies replaced individual diggers, the term "diggings" dropped out of use. The miners used a shovel, a pan, a cradle or sluice box and other tools to dig for gold.

Definition of diggings in the English dictionary

The definition of diggings in the dictionary is material that has been dug out. Other definition of diggings is a place where mining, esp gold mining, has taken place.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DIGGINGS


bearings
ˈbɛərɪŋz
earnings
ˈɜːnɪŋz
evenings
ˈiːvnɪŋz
feelings
ˈfiːlɪŋZ
findings
ˈfaɪndɪŋz
fittings
ˈfɪtɪŋz
furnishings
ˈfɜːnɪʃɪŋz
Kings
kɪŋz
leggings
ˈlɛɡɪŋz
proceedings
prəˈsiːdɪŋz
rankings
ˈræŋkɪŋz
ratings
ˈreɪtɪŋz
savings
ˈseɪvɪŋz
Springs
sprɪŋz
strings
strɪŋz
surroundings
səˈraʊndɪŋz
things
θɪŋz
treggings
ˈtrɛɡɪŋz
wings
ˈwɪŋz
Writings
ˈraɪtɪŋz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DIGGINGS

digestive biscuit
digestive juices
digestive system
digestive tract
digestively
diggable
digged
digger
digger wasp
Diggers
dight
Digibox
digicam
digit
digital
digital audio tape
digital camera
digital clock
digital compact cassette
digital computer

WORDS THAT END LIKE DIGGINGS

averagings
beginnings
belongings
Colorado Springs
Cummings
dealings
facings
Hastings
housings
in the wings
innings
jeggings
lodgings
mornings
personal belongings
screenings
teachings
to be seeing things
with all the trimmings
workings

Synonyms and antonyms of diggings in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «diggings» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DIGGINGS

Find out the translation of diggings to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of diggings from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «diggings» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

矿区
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

excavaciones
570 millions of speakers

English

diggings
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मकान
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الحفريات
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

раскопки
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

escavações
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

খনন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fouilles
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penggalian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ausgrabungen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

採掘現場
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

하숙
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Diggings
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đào phá
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தோண்டப்படுவதிலும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खणता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kazı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

scavi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

diggings
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

розкопки
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sapaturi
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανασκαφές
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

delwerye
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

diggings
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

diggings
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of diggings

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DIGGINGS»

The term «diggings» is normally little used and occupies the 120.155 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DIGGINGS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about diggings

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIGGINGS»

Discover the use of diggings in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to diggings and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Four Days from Fort Wingate: The Lost Adams Diggings
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press In 1864, twenty-one miners and a freighter named Adams set out from Arizona Territory in search of a rich deposit of gold.
Richard French, 1994
2
Life on the Plains and Among the Diggings
With Particular Incidents Of The Route, Mistakes And Sufferings Of The Emigrants, The Indian Tribes, The Present And The Future Of The Great West.
Alonzo Delano, 2009
3
Die Rich Here: The Lost Adams Diggings
After searching for sixty years for a long-lost gold mine known as the Adams Diggings, Ralph Reynolds tells all he's learned. This is a rousing tale of Apache cunning and Yankee gullibility.
Ralph Reynolds, 2012
4
Hard-Luck Diggings: The Early Jack Vance
This is a book to be savoured with a twinkle in the eye, a knowing smile, but most of all, with a love of adventure and high romance firmly in place.
Jack Vance, Terry Dowling, Jonathan Strahan, 2010
5
Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings
94 wood's diggings. he said ; " you are welcome as long as you choose to remain with us ; all I request of you is that you will feel yourself at home." I passed a very pleasant week with this noble-hearted man, and was treated as a brother.
Daniel Bates Woods, 1851
6
A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53. ...
_--—--—~—-~— ~""'"' Sunday is kept at the diggings in a very orderly manner; and among the'actual diggers themselves, the day of rest is taken in a verbatim sense. It is not unusual to have an established clergyman holding forth near the ...
Ellen CLACY, 1853
7
Gold Fever!: Life on the Diggings, 1851-55
Gold Fever! tells the experiences of the men and women who flocked to the Australian goldfields in the early 1850s.
‎1994
8
The Gold Regions of Australia. Who Ought to Go to the ...
538 More New Diggings, .... Labest New South Wales Diggingsz— Meroo, Louisa, and Campbell's Greeks, in the Turon, 30 Geological Reports of Hargreaves, Stutchbury, 5w" 31 Hanging -----------32 Schofield's Station, . '"' Spring Creek,.
Samuel BUTLER (Settler in Australia.), 1858
9
Murray's Guide to the Gold Diggings. The Australian Gold ...
Alexander Elder MURRAY. Alexander is, without doubt, the richest gold field in the world. There are at present upwards of 17,000 men digging on this same Mount Alexander, all of whom are doing well. Many have realized a. fortune in a few ...
Alexander Elder MURRAY, 1852
10
Wanted, 1000 Spirited Young Milliners for the Gold Diggings! ...
Joseph Stirling COYNE. pen and ink? (sits at L. of table) Hand over your papers, and I'll put as good a name on them as ever spoiled a stamp ! BAG. Pshaw! I only want you to stick them. TIP. No, no, 'pon my life I can't do that. I'll accept them ...
Joseph Stirling COYNE, 1852

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DIGGINGS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term diggings is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Two Dacian gold coins recovered in Poland
All these extremely rare coins were obtained illegally by people carrying out illegal diggings and coin detections in the area. The coins were ... «ACTmedia, Jul 15»
2
Jennie Kehlet: Fresh search for missing WA prospector near …
They disappeared in remote bushland with numerous old mine diggings and mine shafts. Police found the couple's campsite with two vehicles ... «ABC Online, Jul 15»
3
Parthian necropolis unearthed in northern Iran
The diggings for pipe-laying operations to build Damghan-Neka gas pipeline led to the discovery as workers encountered some antiques of ... «Mehr News Agency - English Version, Jul 15»
4
Has the WNBA's Western Conference race been altered?
Diggings was drafted third overall in the 2013 draft, one of the “three to see'' along with Brittney Griner and Elena Delle Donne. Digging was ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jul 15»
5
See East Africa's lesser spotted creatures on Kenya's wildlife trail …
But the elusive mammals have at least left plenty of signs: chalky-white hyena dung; bushpig diggings; even a flattened clearing where, ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
6
The Legal Lowdown on Starting a Brewery or Distillery
... says Cris Steller, executive director of the California Artisanal Distillers Guild and founder of Dry Diggings Distillery in El Dorado, California. «Entrepreneur, Jun 15»
7
Team to assure 'cut & haul' by LT developer
A multi-agency team convened by the municipality of La Trinidad will strictly monitor diggings being conducted by a subdivision developer in ... «Baguio Midland Courier, Jun 15»
8
Last chance to comment on EPA's five-year review is Tuesday
... sent a letter to EPA administrator Gina McCarthy commenting on the Parrot corridor, which includes the Parrot tailings, the Diggings East and ... «Montana Standard, Jun 15»
9
Indira Road residents suffer as authorities dig open main road
There was no notice before the diggings, it's a government job, so it just started abruptly.” But those renovating the street said the work is ... «Bangladesh News 24 hours, Jun 15»
10
520-million-year-old fossil of extinct crustacean discovered in …
... more intensive diggings into certain exposed rock layers at the site, located about 1.3 miles from La Rinconada, to see what they might find. «Fox News Latino, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Diggings [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/diggings>. Apr 2024 ».
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