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diggings

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dig·gings  (dgngz)
pl.n.
1. An excavation site, as for digging or mining ore, metals, or precious stones.
2. Materials that have been excavated.
3. Chiefly British Rooms; lodgings.
diggings [ˈdɪgɪŋz]
pl n
1. (functioning as plural) material that has been dug out
2. (Mining & Quarrying) (functioning as singular or plural) a place where mining, esp gold mining, has taken place
3. (functioning as plural) Brit informal a less common name for digs
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.diggings - an excavation for ore or precious stones or for archaeology
digs
excavation - a hole in the ground made by excavating
plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
2.diggingsdiggings - temporary living quarters            
domiciliation, lodgings, digs, pad
living quarters, quarters - housing available for people to live in; "he found quarters for his family"; "I visited his bachelor quarters"
Translations
diggings
pl
(Min) → Bergwerk nt; (= minerals) → Funde pl; (Archeol) → Grabungsort m
(dated US) = digs
diggings [ˈdɪgɪŋz] npl (Archeol) → scavi mpl
diggings [ˈdɪgɪŋz] npl (Archeol) → scavi mpl


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Within a fortnight, however, I met the good man face to face upon the diggings.
Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context
She recognised most of the things which she had known in his old diggings.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
A few immigrant wagons, diverted from the highways of travel by the fame of the new diggings, halted upon the slopes of Devil's Spur and on the arid flats of the Ford, and disgorged their sallow freight of alkali-poisoned, prematurely-aged women and children and maimed and fever-stricken men.
Devil's Ford by Harte, Bret View in context
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