coal mine

See also: coalmine

English

Alternative forms

• coalmine

Noun

coal mine (plural coal mines)

1. A mine from which coal ore or coal minerals are mined.

Synonyms

• (UK) colliery (underground mine only).

Derived terms

• canary in a coal mine

Translations

a mine from which coal is mined

• Armenian: ածխահանք (hy) (acxahankʿ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 煤礦 (zh), 煤矿 (zh) (méikuàng)

• Danish: kulmine (da) c
• Dutch: kolenmijn (nl) c
• Faroese: kolanám n
• Finnish: hiilikaivos (fi)
• French: mine de charbon (fr) f, charbonnage (fr) m, houillère (fr) f
• German: Kohlebergwerk (de) n
• Hungarian: szénbánya (hu)
• Irish: gualcha f, mianach guail m, gualmhianach m
• Japanese: 石炭鉱区 (sekitan-kōku), 炭鉱 (tankō)

• Navajo: łeejin haagééd
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kullgruve m or f

  Nynorsk: kolgruve f

• Portuguese: hulheira f
• Russian: у́гольная ша́хта f (úgolʹnaja šáxta)
• Slovene: rudnik premoga m, premogovnik (sl) m
• Spanish: mina de carbón f
• Swedish: kolgruva (sv) c
• Walloon: houyire (wa) f, tcherbonaedje (wa) m
• Welsh: pwll glo (cy) m or f, gwaith glo m

Further reading

• Coal mining on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• coal mine at OneLook Dictionary Search
• coal mine, coalmine at Google Ngram Viewer

Anagrams

• encomial, enolicam, manicole, meconial, melanoic