coal miner

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   someone who works in a coal mine

   Synonymscollierpitman

   Broaderminer

Questions about coal miner

What does coal miner mean?

coal miner means "someone who works in a coal mine".

What is another word for coal miner?

Close synonyms include collier, pitman. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coal miner a common word?

coal miner is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.