coal mine

coal mine

English

Alternative forms

• coalmine

Etymology

From Middle English coal mine.

Noun

coal mine (plural coal mines)

1. A mine from which coal ore or coal minerals are mined.

Synonyms

• (UK) colliery (underground mine only)

Derived terms

• canary in a coal mine

Translations

a mine from which coal is mined

Armenian: ածխահանք (hy) (acxahankʿ) Bengali: কয়লাখনি (bn) (kôẏlakhôni) Chinese: Mandarin: 煤礦／煤矿 (zh) (méikuàng) Danish: kulmine (da) c Dutch: kolenmijn (nl) c Faroese: kolanám n Finnish: hiilikaivos (fi) French: mine de charbon (fr) f, charbonnage (fr) m, houillère (fr) f German: Kohlebergwerk (de) n, Kohlemine (de) f Greek: ανθρακωρυχείο (el) n (anthrakorycheío) Hungarian: szénbánya (hu) Icelandic: kolanáma (is) f Interlingua: carboniera Irish: gualcha f, mianach guail m, gualmhianach m Japanese: 石炭鉱区 (sekitan-kōku), 炭鉱 (ja) (tankō) Navajo: łeejin haagééd Norwegian: Bokmål: kullgruve m or f Nynorsk: kolgruve f Polish: kopalnia węgla f Portuguese: hulheira f Russian: у́гольная ша́хта f (úgolʹnaja šáxta) Slovene: rudnik premoga m, premogovnik (sl) m Spanish: mina de carbón f Swedish: kolgruva (sv) c Turkish: kömür ocağı Walloon: houyire (wa) f, tcherbonaedje (wa) m Welsh: pwll glo (cy) m or f, gwaith glo m

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• coal mine at OneLook Dictionary Search
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Anagrams

• encomial, enolicam, manicole, meconial, melanoic