FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What is a different word for mine?
What is a different word for mine?
We don’t traditionally think of the possessive word mine as having synonyms, but there are several situations in which it can replace—or be replaced with—another term.
Sometimes you can reword what you’re saying to use my instead of mine. For example, instead of saying This seat is mine, you could say This is my seat.
Mine is also an archaic form of my. This was especially used before a word beginning with a vowel sound, as in mine eyes, or following a noun, as in I must do what is duty mine.
my own
The phrase my own is sometimes used as a more emphatic way of saying mine, as in The fault is my own.
ours
Instead of saying things like This house is mine and hers, we usually use the plural form ours, as in This house is ours.
What is the antonym of mine?
What is the antonym of mine?
What kind of word is mine?
What kind of word is mine?
TRY USING mine
See how your sentence looks with different synonyms.
How to use mine in a sentence
WORDS RELATED TO MINE
- avert
- battle
- beat off
- bulwark
- care for
- cherish
- conserve
- contend
- cover
- entrench
- espouse
- fend off
- fight
- fight for
- fortify
- foster
- garrison
- guard
- guard against
- hedge
- hold
- hold at bay
- house
- insure
- keep safe
- look after
- maintain
- mine
- nourish
- oppose
- panoply
- preserve
- prevent
- provide sanctuary
- repel danger
- resist
- retain
- safeguard
- save
- screen
- secure
- shelter
- shield
- stave off
- sustain
- take in
- uphold
- war
- ward off
- watch
- watch over
- withstand
- bore
- break up
- bulldoze
- burrow
- channel
- clean
- concave
- deepen
- depress
- dig down
- discover
- dredge
- drill
- drive
- enter
- excavate
- exhume
- fork out
- go into
- gouge
- grub
- harvest
- hoe
- investigate
- mine
- penetrate
- pierce
- pit
- probe
- produce
- quarry
- root
- root out
- rout
- sap
- scoop
- scoop out
- search
- shovel
- sift
- spade
- till
- tunnel
- turn over
- uncover
- undermine
- unearth