Meaning

1 senses
  1. A person who explores or prospects an area in search of mineral deposits, such as gold.

    Prospektor, Goldsucher

    стара́тельstarátelʹ, золотоиска́тельzolotoiskátelʹ, геологоразве́дчикgeologorazvédčik

    someone who explores an area for mineral deposits

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Tom is a prospector.

  2. Tom is a gold prospector.

    deTom ist Goldschürfer. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. I know Tom's grandfather was a gold prospector.

  4. I know that Tom's grandfather was a gold prospector.

  5. The prospectors found a petroleum field.

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Translations

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Origin

From prospect + -or.

From prospect + -or.

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Forms

plural: prospectors
Singularprospector
Pluralprospectors

regular

Word family

2 related words
Relatedprospect

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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