COLLIERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does colliery mean? 

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

1. a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLLIERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

colliery; pit

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

work; workplace (a place where work is done)

Meronyms (parts of "colliery"):

coal mine; coalpit (a mine where coal is dug from the ground)

mine (excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted)

 Context examples 

"A colliery," remarks Uncle, with a twinkle of the eye.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The colliery explosion was excellent.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)