collier

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English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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.

Translations

References

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

Anagrams

Danish

Noun

collier c

  1. indefinite plural of collie

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French coler, from Late Latin collāre.

Pronunciation

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

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

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French collier.

Noun

collier m (invariable)

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

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
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