Collier

Definition: Collier

Collier

Noun

1. Someone who works in a coal mine.

Date "collier" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Etymology: Collier \Col"lier\, noun. [from Old English expression colier. See Coal.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Mining	A. Strictly speaking, a person who mines coal with a pick, though commonly applied to anyone who works in or about a colliery. Also called hewer; stallman. b. A steam or sailing vessel carrying a cargo of coal.c. A coal merchant or dealer in coal. (references)
	Explosive; used in mines. (references)
Occupations	Operates series of beehive kilns to produce charcoal: Places kindling in kiln and starts fire. Seals top of kiln when specified heat is attained, using cement and hand trowel. Observes color of smoke as it issues through draft holes in kiln bottom to ensure burning of charcoal as specified. Opens and closes draft holes, using bricks, to regulate forming of charcoal. Seals draft holes and cracks in kiln with cement to smother fire when charcoal has been formed. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Collier

Synonyms: coal miner (n), pitman (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Ship	Man of war; (combatant); transport, tender, storeship; merchant ship, merchantman; packet, liner; whaler, slaver, collier, coaster, lighter; fishing boat, pilot boat; trawler, hulk; yacht; baggala; floating hotel, floating palace; ocean greyhound.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Collier

English words defined with "collier": Dolphin fly. (references)

Specialty definitions using "collier": Dovercot. (references)

Etymologies containing "collier": Colliery. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Collier" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (necklace), French (beads, beadwork, collar, halter, horsecollar, necklace, necklet, ruff).

Domain	Title
Books	Photographing Navajos: John Collier Jr. on the Reservation, 1948-1953 (reference) Robert Collier Letter Book (reference) Surviving Jamestown: The Adventures of Young Sam Collier (reference) The Assault on Assimilation: John Collier and the Origins of Indian Policy Reform (reference) Way Station (A Collier Nucleus Science Fiction Classics) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Collier Trophy Presentation 1929. Credit: NASA.		Mercury Astronauts Receiving the Collier Trophy. Credit: NASA.
	Tracey Collier and a NMFS team of scientists were on site to collect samples to test for oil contamination of sediments and in marine organisms. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.		Point Judith Pond, Tracey Collier deploys a fish trap to sample fish and their exposure to oil. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
	[Charles Darwin] / From Etching by Léopold J. Flameng of Painting by Hon. John Collier. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		... Tickles her tuft, and laces on her stays. / J. Collier Sen. inv. del. T. Sanders sculpt. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Photographed circa 1909-1912, while serving as a fleet collier prior to her conversion to a repair ship. Credit: NAVY.		At anchor, circa 1909, while fitted with only one "cage" mast. An Illinois class battleship is in the left distance, with a collier alongside. Credit: NAVY.
	Air trophy presented. Capt. Albert F. Hegenberger, U.S. Army Air Corps, is presented with Collier Air Trophy by Pres. Roosevelt at the White House. Credit: Library of Congress.		Le collier de fer, châtiment des fugitifs ; Nègres en commission, par un temps de pluie ; Transport de tuiles / J.B. Debret, delt. ; lith. de Thierry Frères, succ. de Engelmann & Cie. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Jeremy Collier	Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
	People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
	True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
	A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.
	Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
	How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Collier" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 84.34% of the time. "Collier" is used about 166 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	84.34%	140	26,789
Noun (singular)	15.66%	26	68,323
Total	100.00%	166	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "collier" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Collier	Last name	23,000	491
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expressions using "collier": Collier County ♦ petit pluvier � collier. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "collier": collier-farmers, Collier-jackson.
	Ending with "collier": Fox-collier.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "collier"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Minator (coal miner, digger, miner), Anije Qymyrguri. (various references)

Arabic		‏ناقلة الفحم, ‏عامل بمنجم فحم. (various references)

Bulgarian		Моряк На Такъв Кораб, Транспортен Кораб За �'ъглища, �'ъглекопач. (various references)

Czech		Uhelná Loï (coal-carrier), Horník (coal miner, digger, miner). (various references)

Danish		selvtrimmende skib (elf trimmer), kulminearbejder (coal getter, coal miner, face worker, faceman, skilled faceworker), kulbaad (elf trimmer). (various references)

Dutch		zelftriumende (elf trimmer), mijnwerker in een steenkoolmijn, koolarbeider, kolenschip (elf trimmer), kolenhouwer (coal getter, faceman), kolenboot (elf trimmer). (various references)

Farsi		کشتی (Ark, Bottom, Hulk, Log, Ship, Vessel, Wrestle), ذغال گیری , ذغال سنگ . (various references)

Finnish		kaivosmies (miner). (various references)

French		charbonnier (coal, coalcutter). (various references)

German		Kohlenarbeiter (coalminer), Bergmann (miner, pitman), Kohlenschiff (elf trimmer). (various references)

Greek		ανθρακωρύχος (miner), ανθρακοφόρο πλοίο (elf trimmer), Ανθρακωρύχοσ, Ανθρακοφόρο � λοίο. (various references)

Hebrew		ֻור�" װחם, ׀ושאת װחם. (various references)

Hungarian		vájár (cutter, dig, digger, driver, hewer), szénbányász (coal miner, dig, digger), szénszállító hajó (coaler, colliery). (various references)

Italian		carboniero (elf trimmer), Carboniera (coaler), self trinming (elf trimmer), nave carboniera (elf trimmer), Minatore (miner). (various references)

Manx		meaineyder geayil, baatey geayil (coal boat). (various references)

Pig Latin		olliercay

Portuguese		mineiro (hewer, mine worker, miner, pitman, tinner), barco carvoeiro (charcoalburner, coaler). (various references)

Romanian		Vas Carbonifer, Miner La Cãrbune. (various references)

Russian		Матрос На Угольщике, Углекоп, Шахтер. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		brod za prevoz uglja (coaler). (various references)

Spanish		Minero (mine worker, miner, pitman). (various references)

Swedish		Kolgruvearbetare (miner). (various references)

Turkish		Madenci (coal miner, miner, pitman), Kömür Ocağı Ýşçisi, Kömür Gemisi Ýşçisi, Kömür Gemisi (coaler). (various references)

Ukrainian		�'угільник, �'углекоп, Шахтар. (various references)

Vietnamese		công nhân mỏ than. (various references)

Welsh		glowr. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "collier": collieries, colliers, colliery. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Collier" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bollier, Callyr, Chollie, cillei, clier, clire, coilier, coleer, coleier, colere, coleur, colfer, colier, Colkirk, Collaer, collare, colleae, Colleer, coller, Colliar, collibe, Collio, Collium, Collyear, Colyear, culier, dollier, Roullier, Zollner. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "collier" (pronounced kÄ"lyer)
3	-l y er	belier, espalier, failure, familiar, hotelier, peculiar, unfamiliar.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-l-o-r"
	-1 letter: coiler, collie, ocelli, recoil.
	-2 letters: celli, cello, ceorl, iller, oiler, oleic, oriel, relic, reoil, rille.
	-3 letters: ceil, cell, cero, cire, coil, coir, cole, core, lice, lier, lire, loci, lore, orle, rice, riel, rile, rill, roil, role, roll.
	-4 letters: cel, col, cor, ell, ice, ill, ire, lei, lie, oil, ole, orc, ore, rec, rei, roc.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-l-o-r"
	+1 letter: collider, colliers, colliery, rocaille.
	+2 letters: colliders, collinear, coralline, corbeille, overchill, rocailles, rollicked.
	+3 letters: allometric, allosteric, calciferol, citronella, collieries, corallines, corbeilles, corbelling, cordelling, cordillera, erotically, heroically, inscrolled, interlocal, overchills, prelogical, recoilless, sclerotial, vorticella.
	+4 letters: aerobically, allegorical, bimolecular, brucellosis, calciferols, carillonned, cauliflower, citronellal, citronellas, citronellol, cordilleran, cordilleras, corollaries, enscrolling, kilocalorie, lamellicorn, nonallergic, nonclerical, oneirically, overcalling, overchilled, precolonial, rheological, serological, vectorially, vorticellae, vorticellas.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
collier county	213	collier group	19
collier	117	john collier	19
collier county florida	89	clerk collier county	19
collier county property appraiser	86	collier county humane society	17
clerk collier county court	84	alex collier	16
collier county government	73	real estate and collier	15
collier county school	69	collier shannon	14
collier county public school	61	collier county real estate	14
collector collier county tax	55	collier international	14
collier county fl	33	david collier	12
robert collier	29	collier county jail	12
collier county district school	28	collier kitty tiny	12
collier county public record	28	collier county tax	11
collier county sheriff	27	collier county job	11
collier county library	25	kitty collier	11
mark collier	25	auction collier	11
collier county library public	24	collier county court	11
collier county school board	24	collier county florida school	11
collier county appraiser	22	collier county property	11
collier county office sheriff	20	collier hospital north	10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Collier

Definition: Collier

Collier

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