thợ mỏ

Người thợ mỏ đội mũ bảo hộ và cầm đèn pin đi vào hầm mỏ.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • Miner: A person whose job is to extract coal, minerals, or other geological materials from the earth by working in a mine.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Các thợ mỏ làm việc rất vất vả dưới hầm sâu. (The miners work very hard deep underground.)
  • Cha của anh ấy là một thợ mỏ than. (His father is a coal miner.)
  • Công nghệ mới giúp đảm bảo an toàn cho thợ mỏ. (New technology helps ensure the safety of miners.)

Advanced Usage

• The term can be specified by the type of mine or material extracted, forming compound nouns.
  • thợ mỏ than: coal miner.
  • thợ mỏ vàng: gold miner.

Variants and Related Words

• Công nhân mỏ (n): mine worker. A more formal or general term for personnel working in a mining operation.
• Khai thác mỏ (v): to mine. The verb for the activity of extracting minerals.

Synonyms

• Mineworker: A person employed in a mine.
• Collier (archaic): Specifically a coal miner or a ship that transports coal.

Related Idioms

• While there is no direct idiom with "thợ mỏ," the profession is often associated with concepts of hard labor and danger, referenced in sayings about difficult work.
  • Công việc nặng nhọc như thợ mỏ. (Work as hard as that of a miner.)