colliery

Questions about colliery

What does colliery mean?

colliery means "a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it".

How many syllables are in colliery?

colliery has 3 syllables and divides as col-lie-ry under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for colliery?

Close synonyms include pit. 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 colliery a common word?

colliery is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.