What does Collier mean?

Definitions for Collier
ˈkɒl yərcol·lier

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Collier.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. coal miner, collier, pitmannoun

    someone who works in a coal mine

Wiktionary

  1. colliernoun

    A person in the business or occupation of producing (digging or mining coal or making charcoal) or in its transporting or commerce.

  2. colliernoun

    A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal

  3. colliernoun

    A nickname used by the traveller community, referring to a non-traveller

  4. Etymology: From colier, from col

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Colliernoun

    Etymology: from coal.

    I knew a nobleman a great grasier, a great timberman, a great collier, and a great landman. Francis Bacon, Essay 35.

ChatGPT

  1. Collier

    A collier is a person who is involved in the production, sale, or transportation of coal. They may work in coal mines, operate machinery to extract coal, load or unload coal from ships or trucks, or sell coal to customers.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Colliernoun

    one engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal

  2. Colliernoun

    a vessel employed in the coal trade

  3. Etymology: [OE. colier. See Coal.]

Wikidata

  1. Collier

    A collier is a bulk cargo ship designed to carry coal, especially for naval use by coal-fired warships. In the late eighteenth century, a number of wooden-hulled sailing colliers gained fame after being adapted for use in voyages of exploration in the South Pacific, for which their flat-bottomed hulls and sturdy construction made them well-suited. The first aircraft carrier in the United States Navy was a converted Collier, fitted with a large elevated flat deck, used before the invention of purpose built aircraft carrier hulls. Coaling at sea was critical to navies and speed of coal transfer was an important metric of naval efficiency. In 1883, forty tons an hour was considered fast and it would take over twelve hours to restock half the bunkers of a typical ship, HMS Collingwood.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Collier

    kol′yėr, n. one who works in a coal-mine: a ship that carries coal: a sailor in such a ship.—n. Coll′iery, a coal-mine.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. COLLIER

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Collier is ranked #599 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Collier surname appeared 56,380 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 19 would have the surname Collier.

    66.9% or 37,758 total occurrences were White.
    27.3% or 15,442 total occurrences were Black.
    2.4% or 1,359 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    2.1% or 1,212 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    0.6% or 338 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.4% or 265 total occurrences were Asian.

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  1. cerillo

  2. colleri

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Collier in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Collier in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Collier in a Sentence

  1. Rick Scott:

    Vice President Pence said in Fort Myers. The president monitored Irma over this past weekend from Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland. Nearly half of Florida was engulfed by Irma, which left flooded streets, damaged homes and displaced residents in its wake. Florida's southwestern coast is a haven for retirees seeking warm weather and beautiful sunsets across the Gulf of Mexico. Many communities are still cleaning up or without power or air conditioning. In Lee County, which includes Cape Coral and Fort Myers, the Florida Emergency Management Agency said 66 percent of the area's 290,000 electrical customers were still without power Wednesday. Widespread outages led to long lines outside of the relatively few stores, gas stations and restaurants that had reopened. The situation was even worse to the south in Collier County, home to Naples. Days after Irma passed, almost 80 percent of homes and businesses were still without electricity, and floodwaters still covered some communities entirely. As of Thursday morning, the number of homes and businesses without electricity in Florida was 2.69 million, according to the agency. That's 25.6 percent of all customers in the state. We are working hard to get power back on. Our utilities have restored over 4-million homes already.

  2. Ian Bartoszek:

    The ecological impact of removing so many adult pythons from a relatively small area of Collier County can only be positive for our native wildlife, we need to utilize all tools available and develop additional techniques to capture and remove Burmese pythons in Florida.

  3. Charles de LEUSSE:

    The champions of liberty have the medal for any necklace. (Les champions de la liberte - Ont la medaille pour tout collier)

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