Word.ws English Dictionary

black lung

black lung noun: a chronic disease of the lungs caused by the long-term inhalation of coal dust.

Noun

black lung (uncountable)

  1. A chronic disease of the lungs caused by the long-term inhalation of coal dust.
    • Thousands of miners have given their lives and their health. They've got black lung, they can't work. The Pittston company is trying to cut off their health benefits by various means. That's what the strike is about.1989 December 3, Pam Mitchell, Ronnie Gilbert, “Carrying On The Honorable Tradition Of 'Protest Music'”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 21, page 9

Synonyms of black lung

All synonyms of black lung

Questions about black lung

What does black lung mean?
Black lung means a chronic disease of the lungs caused by the long-term inhalation of coal dust.
What part of speech is black lung?
Black lung is a noun.

Words near black lung in the dictionary

  1. black lives matter
  2. black locust
  3. black locusts
  4. black look
  5. black looks
  6. black lung
  7. black lung disease
  8. Black Madonna
  9. black mage
  10. black mages
  11. black magic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: black lung (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “black lung.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/black_lung. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.