1
as in residence
the place where one lives
he hasn't been seen around these diggings lately
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2
as in apartment
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
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Recent Examples of diggings
Stricker’s mention of Long Beach was a reference to Washington’s richest razor diggings, which also have yielded unusually large clams.
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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
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
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“Diggings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diggings. Accessed 6 Dec. 2025.
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