Word Meanings - PROSPECTOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who prospects; especially, one who explores a region for minerals and precious metals.
Related words: (words related to PROSPECTOR)
- PRECIOUSNESS
The quality or state of being precious; costliness; dearness. - PRECIOUS
1. Of great price; costly; as, a precious stone. "The precious bane." Milton. 2. Of great value or worth; very valuable; highly esteemed; dear; beloved; as, precious recollections. She is more precious than rules. Prov. iii. 15. Many things which - ESPECIALLY
In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree. - REGIONAL
Of or pertaining to a particular region; sectional. - PRECIOUSLY
In a precious manner; expensively; extremely; dearly. Also used ironically. - REGION
1. One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract. - PHOTIC REGION
The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light. - APHOTIC REGION
A depth of water so great that only those organisms can exist that do not assimilate. - PROTOMETALS
A finer form of metals, indicated by enhanced lines in their spark spectra , obtained at the highest available laboratory temperatures ; as protocalcium, protochromium, protocopper, protonickel, protosilicon, protostrontium, prototitanium, - TRANSREGIONATE
Foreign. Holinshed. - SEMIPRECIOUS
Somewhat precious; as, semiprecious stones or metals.