collier See collycollier n : someone who works in a coal mine [syn: coal miner, pitman]colly v : make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!" [syn: dirty, soil, begrime, grime, bemire] [ant: clean] [also: collied, colliest, collier]

see collier

English

Etymology

Derived from the name of occupation - collier, a coal miner

Proper noun

Collier

1. a surname

German

Alternative spellings

• Kollier

Etymology

From collier

Noun

1. necklace

Collier or Colliers may refer to:

Coal Industry

• Colliery, coal mining and selling
• Collier (ship type), a bulk cargo ship which carried coal
• Charcoal maker, in colonial United States

Locations

• Collier Row, a place in the London Borough of Havering
• Colliers Wood is an area in the London Borough of Merton
• Collier County, Florida, a county of Florida's southwest coast
• Colliers, Newfoundland and Labrador, a town on the Avalon Peninsula

Other

• Collier Trophy, is the highest honor in American aviation
• Collier (necklace), a type of necklace, possibly a synonym for choker
• Collier Motors, the last auto dealer in the U.S. under the American Motors banner
• Collier's Weekly was a U.S. magazine published between 1888 and 1957
• Collier's Encyclopedia is a U.S. encyclopedia

People

• Arthur Collier
• Barron Collier
• Barry Collier, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Miranda in 1999
• Barry S. Collier, Athletic Director, Butler University
• Celester Collier
• Charles Collier
• Christopher Collier (cricketer), an English cricketer
• Christopher Collier (historian), an American historian and author
• Constance Collier
• David Collier, chief executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board
• David A. Collier, professor of Management Science, the Ohio State University
• Elisha Collier
• Evert Collier
• Gay Collier
• Harry Collier
• Henry W. Collier
• Ian Collier
• James William Collier, an American politician from the U.S. state of Mississippi
• James Lincoln Collier, journalist and writer
• Jason Collier, former NBA basketball player
• Jeremy Collier (1650-1726)
• John Collier (artist), a Pre-Raphaelite painter
• John Collier (writer), best known for his short stories
• John Payne Collier, a British Shakespearian critic
• Jonathan Collier
• Kevin S. Collier
• Laurence Collier
• Lois Collier
• Lou Collier, American baseball player
• Marie Collier
• Mark Collier (actor), an American stage and television actor
• Mark Collier (Egyptologist), a British Egyptologist
• Mark H. Collier, former president of Baldwin-Wallace College
• Marsha Collier
• Michael Collier, an aerial Photographer
• Paul Collier, an author and Professor of Economics at The University of Oxford
• Peter Collier, an Australian politician
• Peter Collier, a political author
• Philip Collier (1873–1978), former Premier of Western Australia
• Reno Collier, a comedian
• Robert Porrett Collier, 1st Baron Monkswell
• Ron Collier
• Sophia Collier
• Tom Collier
• William Collier
• Collier Twentyman Smithers, a portrait artist
• Marcel Collier