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colliery

/ˈkɒl.jə.ɹi/US/ˈkɑl.jɚ.ɪ/

colliery noun: an underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.

colliery: an underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings
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Noun

colliery (plural collieries)

  1. (UK) An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.
    • Sir Geoffrey, Clifford's father, was intensely ridiculous, chopping down his trees, and weeding men out of his colliery to shove them into the war [...] From the rather dismal rooms at Wragby she heard the rattle-rattle of the screens at the pit, the puff of the winding-engine, the clink-clink of...1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC
    • From the hillock a score of red paths diverged as black ones do from a colliery, one of them leading to the homestead itself […]1938, Xavier Herbert, “Chapter VII”, in Capricornia, page 91
  2. (US) A facility that supplies coal.

colliery meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

colliery in Tamil

நிலக்கரிச் சுரங்கம்

colliery in Malayalam

കൽക്കരിഖനി

Examples of colliery in a sentence

  • Beyond the slag was a colliery with its machinery and smoking chimney, making the whole area look grim and austere.
  • After Aulnoye the route lay through the colliery area and past Maubeuge to Jeumont, on the Belgian border.
  • In addition the Marquess built a brickworks adjacent to the colliery, and also greatly improved the harbour to encourage coastal shipping.

All 12 example sentences with colliery

Forms of colliery

pluralcollieries

Plural of colliery: collieries

Origin of colliery

From collier + -y.

Words formed from colliery

Questions about colliery

What does colliery mean?
Colliery means an underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.
What is colliery in Tamil?
Colliery in Tamil is நிலக்கரிச் சுரங்கம். See Colliery meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is colliery?
Colliery is a noun.
How do you pronounce colliery?
Colliery is pronounced /ˈkɒl.jə.ɹi/ (UK).
What is the plural of colliery?
The plural of colliery is collieries.

Words near colliery in the dictionary

  1. Collier Street
  2. collieries
  3. colliers
  4. Colliers Wood
  5. Collierville
  6. colliery
  7. Colliery Row
  8. collies
  9. collieshangie
  10. collieshangies
  11. colliest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colliery (page history and authors); colliery (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); colliery (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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.

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