# collier
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English colier (“charcoal burner”), from col (“coal”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɒlɪə(ɹ)/
* (US) enPR: kälʹē-ər, IPA: /ˈkɑliɚ/
* Audio (UK):(file)

### Noun

collier (plural colliers)
* A person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel).
** A person who produces (e.g., digs, mines, gathers) or sells coal (the fossil fuel type), or transports it from underground, from the soil, or from a seashore.
    Near-synonyms: coalminer, coalworker; coalowner, mineowner
** (dated or historical) A person in the business or occupation of producing (and selling) charcoal.
    Synonym: charcoal burner
*** 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 224:For this reason, the collier took constant care to keep the covering of earth in good order.
* (nautical) A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal.
    Synonym: coaler
    Coordinate terms: oiler, oil tanker
** 2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 42:By 1830, more than two million tons of coal a year, principally from the North East, arrived in London by coastal collier, and that figure reached three million tons by the 1840s.
* (nautical) A sailor on such a vessel.
* (slang, used by the traveller community) A non-traveller.

#### Related terms

* Collier Street
* Colliers Wood
* colliery
* mineral coal
* seacoal

#### See also

* collie (possibly related)

### References

* Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

### Anagrams

* Coriell

## Danish
### Noun

collier c
* indefinite plural of collie

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French collier. Closely related to (but not a doublet of) kolder as in maliënkolder.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔlˈjeː/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

collier m or n (plural colliers, diminutive colliertje n)
* necklace
    Synonym: halsketting

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French collier, from Old French colier, a variant (deriving from Late Latin collārium) of coler, from Late Latin collāre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔ.lje/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

collier m (plural colliers)
* a necklace, string-shaped jewel worn around the neck
* collar (e.g. of a dog)
* collar (on animals, colored fur around the neck)

#### Derived terms

* collier de perles
* couleuvre à collier

#### Related terms

* cou m, col

#### Descendants

* → Dutch: collier
* → German: Kollier, Collier n
* → Greek: κολιέ m (kolié, “necklace”)
* → Romanian: colier n (“necklace”)
* → Russian: колье́ n (kolʹjé, “necklace”)
* → Turkish: kolye (“necklace”)

### References

* Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

### Further reading

* “collier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French collier.

### Noun

collier m (invariable)
* a necklace, string-shaped jewel worn around the neck

#### Related terms

* collo m

## Swedish
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

collier
* indefinite plural of collie

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from French collier.

#### Noun

collier c
* a choker