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单词 diggings
释义

diggings

plural noun

dig·​gings ˈdi-giŋz How to pronounce diggings (audio)
1
: a place of excavating especially for ore, metals, or precious stones
2
: material dug out
3
a
: quarters, premises
b
chiefly British : lodgings for a student

Synonyms

  • abode
  • domicile
  • dwelling
  • fireside
  • habitation
  • hearth
  • hearthstone
  • home
  • house
  • lodging
  • pad
  • place
  • quarters
  • residence
  • roof
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Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Stricker’s mention of Long Beach was a reference to Washington’s richest razor diggings, which also have yielded unusually large clams. Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2022 As tear gas and bullets fly, students from the affluent suburbs of Yangon and Mandalay, the country’s two biggest cities, are being joined on the barricades by fresh-faced office and factory workers and young miners from the jade diggings of Kachin. Brian Wong, Time, 5 Mar. 2021 But her family letters from a century ago told of gatherings, as well as grave diggings. Jacey Fortin New York Times, Star Tribune, 9 Dec. 2020

Word History

First Known Use

1538, in the meaning defined at sense 1

diggings

plural noun

1
as in residence
the place where one lives he hasn't been seen around these diggings lately

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • residence
  • dwelling
  • abode
  • lodging
  • house
  • home
  • roof
  • place
  • housing
  • quarters
  • habitation
  • residency
  • hearth
  • fireside
  • domicile
  • cabin
  • shelter
  • cottage
  • mansion
  • ranch
  • apartment
  • hearthstone
  • bungalow
  • pad
  • nest
  • accommodations
  • homestead
  • estate
  • farmhouse
  • castle
  • tenement
  • hut
  • dormitory
  • shack
  • hacienda
  • flat
  • barracks
  • villa
  • manor
  • palace
  • penthouse
  • hall
  • suite
  • chalet
  • lodgment
  • shanty
  • grange
  • duplex
  • condominium
  • rectory
  • dorm
  • billet
  • condo
  • boardinghouse
  • flophouse
  • hovel
  • casita
  • ranch house
  • split level
  • semi
  • hermitage
  • parsonage
  • saltbox
  • tenement house
  • triplex
  • recreational vehicle
  • town house
  • lodgement
  • room(s)
  • trailer
  • tract house
  • manse
  • lodging house
  • château
  • salon
  • vicarage
  • rooming house
  • hooch
  • apartment house
  • mobile home
  • manor house
  • townhome
  • motor home
  • hootch
  • houseboat
  • walk-up
  • RV
  • McMansion
  • house trailer
  • hutch
  • countryseat
  • double-wide
2
as in lodgings
chiefly British a room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place while at Oxford, his diggings were the envy of all the other undergraduates

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • lodgings
  • apartment
  • digs
  • tenement
  • penthouse
  • flat
  • suite
  • condominium
  • studio
  • saloon
  • efficiency
  • condo
  • duplex
  • wing
  • bedsit
  • flatlet
  • railroad flat
  • efficiency apartment
  • bed-sitting-room
  • cohousing
  • bed-sitter
  • triplex
  • salon
  • duplex apartment
  • studio apartment
  • maisonette
  • granny flat
  • gallery
  • garden apartment
  • tenement house
  • apartment building
  • walk-up
  • apartment house
  • floor-through
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