mineur — meaning in English

English meaning

• miner noun A person who works underground or in a quarry extracting coal, ore, or other minerals.
• minor adj Lesser in size, seriousness, or importance compared with something else.
• underage adjective Below the legal age required for an activity, such as drinking or driving.

Senses

mineur is used for these senses in English:

• miner A person who works in a mine.
• mineworker One who works in a mine.
• minor (Scots law, obsolete) An adolescent, a person above the legal age of puberty but below the age of majority.

miner — full definition

1. noun A person who works underground or in a quarry extracting coal, ore, or other minerals.
2. noun A person or piece of software that earns cryptocurrency by performing the computations needed to validate transactions.

minor — full definition

1. adj Lesser in size, seriousness, or importance compared with something else.
2. adj Not yet having reached the legal age of adulthood.
3. noun A person who is under the legal age of adulthood.
4. noun A secondary subject of study alongside a student's main degree.
5. verb To study a subject as a secondary field alongside one's main degree.