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: colliery; UK, underground mine only

Derived terms

• canary in a coal mine
• midnight in a coal mine

 

Translations

a mine from which coal is mined

• Armenian: ածխահանք (hy) (acxahankʻ)
• 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

Anagrams

• encomial, enolicam, manicole, meconial, melanoic

Further reading

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