collier

See also: Collier

English

Etymology

From Middle English colier, 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)

1. A person in the business or occupation of producing (digging or mining) coal or making charcoal or in its transporting or commerce.
   • 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.

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

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

Related terms

• Colliers Wood
• colliery

Translations

person

• Bulgarian: въглекопач m (vǎglekopač)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 煤船員／煤船员

• Czech: uhlíř (cs) m
• Dutch: mijnwerker (nl) m, koempel m
• French: mineur (fr) m, charbonnier (fr) m
• German: Bergmann (de) m, Kumpel (de) m, Köhler (de) m
• Hungarian: szénbányász (hu), vájár (hu), szénégető (hu)
• Irish: gualadóir m, mianadóir guail m
• Latin: carbōnārius m
• Polish: węglarz (pl) m
• Romanian: cărbunar (ro) m
• Russian: у́гольщик (ru) m (úgolʹščik)
• Spanish: carbonero (es) m
• Swedish: kolare (sv) m

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)

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

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French 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

• → 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
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	collier	colliern	collierer	colliererna
Genitive	colliers	collierns	collierers	collierernas

Declension of collier
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	collier	collieren	collierer	colliererna
Genitive	colliers	collierens	collierers	collierernas