COLLIER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does collier mean? 

• COLLIER (noun)
  The noun COLLIER has 1 sense:

1. someone who works in a coal mine

  Familiarity information: COLLIER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLLIER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who works in a coal mine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

coal miner; collier; pitman

Hypernyms ("collier" is a kind of...):

miner; mineworker (laborer who works in a mine)

 Context examples 

I had not sat five minutes by the coffee-room fire, when the waiter, coming to stir it, as an excuse for talking, told me that two colliers had gone down, with all hands, a few miles away; and that some other ships had been seen labouring hard in the Roads, and trying, in great distress, to keep off shore.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)