collier

See also: Collier

English

Etymology

From Middle English colier (“charcoal burner”), from col (“coal”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒlɪə(ɹ)/
• (US) enPR: kälʹē-ər, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑliɚ/

• Audio (UK):

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Noun

The S.S. Wandle, a British collier, arriving on her maiden voyage at the Pool of London in London, England, UK

collier (plural colliers)

2. A person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel).
   2. A person who produces (e.g., digs, mines, gathers) or sells coal (the fossil fuel type), or transports it from underground, from the soil, or from a seashore.

      Near-synonyms: coalminer, mineowner

   4. (dated or historical) A person in the business or occupation of producing (and selling) charcoal.

      Synonym: charcoal burner

      • 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 224:

        For this reason, the collier took constant care to keep the covering of earth in good order.

4. (nautical) A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal.

   Synonym: coaler

   Coordinate terms: oiler, oil tanker

   • 2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 42:

     By 1830, more than two million tons of coal a year, principally from the North East, arrived in London by coastal collier, and that figure reached three million tons by the 1840s.

6. (nautical) A sailor on such a vessel.
8. (slang, used by the traveller community) A non-traveller.

Related terms

• Colliers Wood
• colliery
• mineral coal
• seacoal

 

Translations

coalminer — see coalminer

charcoal burner — see charcoal burner

crew member on a coalship

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 煤船員／煤船员

vessel

• Bulgarian: въглевоз m (vǎglevoz)
• Dutch: kolenschip (nl) n, koolschip n
• French: charbonnier (fr) m
• Greek: ανθρακοφόρο (el) n (anthrakofóro), καρβουνιάρικο (el) (karvouniáriko)
• Irish: bád guail m, pota guail m, soitheach guail m
• Italian: carboniera f
• Polish: węglowiec (pl) m
• Russian: у́гольщик (ru) m (úgolʹščik)

See also

• collie (possibly related)

 

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

• Coriell

Danish

Noun

collier c

1. indefinite plural of collie

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French collier. Closely related to (but not a doublet of) kolder as in maliënkolder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔlˈjeː/

• Audio:

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Noun

collier m or n (plural colliers, diminutive colliertje n)

1. necklace

   Synonym: halsketting

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French collier, from Old French colier, a variant (deriving from Late Latin collārium) of coler, from Late Latin collāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.lje/

• Audio:

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Noun

collier m (plural colliers)

1. a necklace, string-shaped jewel worn around the neck
2. collar (e.g. of a dog)
3. collar (on animals, colored fur around the neck)

Derived terms

• collier de perles
• couleuvre à collier

Related terms

• cou m, col

Descendants

• → Dutch: collier
• → German: Kollier, Collier n
• → Greek: κολιέ m (kolié, “necklace”)
• → Romanian: colier n (“necklace”)
• → Russian: колье́ n (kolʹjé, “necklace”)
• → Turkish: kolye (“necklace”)

References

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

Further reading

• “collier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French collier.

Noun

collier m (invariable)

1. a necklace, string-shaped jewel worn around the neck

Related terms

• collo m

Swedish

Etymology 1

Noun

collier

1. indefinite plural of collie

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French collier.

Noun

collier c

1. a choker

Declension

Declension of collier

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	collier	colliers
	definite	colliern	collierns
plural	indefinite	collierer	collierers
	definite	colliererna	collierernas

Declension of collier

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	collier	colliers
	definite	collieren	collierens
plural	indefinite	collierer	collierers
	definite	colliererna	collierernas