coal mine

English

Alternative forms

coalmine

Etymology

From Middle English coal mine.

Noun

coal mine (plural coal mines)

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) (koẏlakhoni)
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)
Macedonian: јагленоко́п m (jaglenokóp)
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

Further reading

“coal mine”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
coal mine, coalmine at Google Ngram Viewer

Anagrams

encomial, enolicam, manicole, meconial, melanoic

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