coal mine

English

Alternative forms

• coalmine

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

See also

• Coal mining on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Coal mining

Translations

a mine from which coal is mined

• Armenian: ածխահանք (hy) (acxahankʿ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 煤礦 (cmn), 煤矿 (cmn) (méikuàng)

• Danish: kulmine (da) c
• Dutch: kolenmijn (nl) c
• Finnish: hiilikaivos (fi)
• French: mine de charbon (fr) f
• German: Kohlebergwerk (de) n

• Irish: gualcha (ga) f, mianach guail (ga) m, gualmhianach (ga) m
• Japanese: 石炭鉱区 (ja) (sekitan-kōku), 炭鉱 (ja) (tankō)
• Portuguese: hulheira (pt) f
• Russian: угольная шахта (ru) (úgol'naja šáxta) f
• Slovene: rudnik premoga (sl) m, premogovnik (sl) m
• Spanish: mina de carbón (es) f
• Swedish: kolgruva (sv) c
• Welsh: pwll glo (cy) m and f