coal miner
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2.5
- noun
- /koʊl ˈmaɪnər/
:
minero del carbón
- In the small town, many families relied on the income from local coal miners.
- coal miners' strike
- underground coal miner
- immigrant coal miner
Thanks to coal miners, we had the industrial revolution.
- Thanks to coal miners, we had the industrial revolution.
- Is the coal miner paying for their electricity bill?
- Robert Prager, a German born coal miner from Illinois.
- His dad was a coal miner and they put food on the table from hunting.
- I would consider it a sin against God to vote for Donald Trump if I were a coal miner.
- Back when there were coal miners, they would bring a Canary, a bird, down into the mines with them.
- There's a guy, there's a Conservative member of Parliament, northern fella, He was Labour, he was a coal miner.
- I'm a coal miner and I don't know that you've had any coal miners call in, but I wanted to say that it's a tough job.
- Black women, butchers, fighters, teachers, electricians, black police officers, even Appalachian coal miners for Angela.
- And if working hard were enough, then the coal miners and the gravediggers and the gold miners, not the mine owners.
Examples
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- I was a coal miner.
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Not everybody living in coal states is a coal miner or directly dependent on the coal industry.
Blog text (17) -
Thanks to coal miners, we had the industrial revolution.
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It's about the West Virginia coal miners' strike of 1920.
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But even a coal miner gets time off.
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My dad was a coal miner and mom stayed at home.
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She made it happen for the coal miners in West Virginia.
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The coal miners' strike of 1894 was one such occasion when this diverse community came together.
Academic text (2000) -
He was a coal miner.
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I'm a coal miner.
Synonyms
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2.3
A person who works in a mine to take coal or minerals from the ground
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9.8
A person who works in a coal mine digging out coal
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9.9
A person who works underground in a coal mine
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3.3
A person who works in a mine to take out coal or minerals
A woman who works in a coal mine
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who extracts coal from underground mines' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'coal' (the fuel) with 'miner' (someone who extracts minerals). This noun–noun compound follows a common, cross-linguistically frequent composition pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Coal miner comes from the job name: a miner is someone who digs, and a coal miner is someone who digs out coal from under the ground. Imagine a worker with a lamp on their helmet cutting black rock in a dark tunnel — that's why coal miner means 'a person whose job is to extract coal from underground mines'.