collier
/ˈkɑliɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.37 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel).
Dated
noun
A person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel).
Dated
noun
A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal.
noun
A non-traveller.
Slang
name
A surname originating as an occupation.
name
An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Georgia, United States.
name
A township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Example Sentences
- "The Black Dwarfs wear black jackets and caps, are not handsome like the others, but on the contrary are horridly ugly, with weeping eyes, like blacksmiths and colliers."
- "No caps were touched, no curtseys bobbed. The colliers merely stared; the tradesmen lifted their caps to Connie as to an acquaintance, and nodded awkwardly to Clifford; that was all. [...] It was not that she and Clifford were unpopular, they merely belonged to another species altogether from the colliers. Gulf impassable, breach indescribable, such as is perhaps non-existent south of the Trent."
- "Near-synonyms: coalminer, coalworker; coalowner, mineowner"
- "For this reason, the collier took constant care to keep the covering of earth in good order."
- "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."
Etymology
From Middle English colier, colyer, alteration of earlier coler, collere (“one who makes or sells charcoal”), from Old English *colere (“collier”), equivalent to coal + -ier.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkɑliɚ/
- British English: /ˈkɒlɪə(ɹ)/