coalfield

English

Etymology

From coal +‎ field.

Noun

coalfield (plural coalfields)

1. Any region containing deposits of coal that may be mined.
   • 1961 August, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 492:

     The amount of coal despatched in the Western Region is about 24,000,000 tons a year, nearly all from South Wales, though the Region includes the Forest of Dean, N. Somerset, and part of the N. Wales coalfields.

Translations

region containing deposits of coal

• Bulgarian: за́леж от ка́менни въ́глища m (zálež ot kámenni vǎ́glišta)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 煤田 (zh) (méitián)

• Finnish: hiilikenttä
• Hungarian: szénmező (hu)
• Polish: zagłębie (pl) n
• Russian: каменноу́гольный бассе́йн m (kamennoúgolʹnyj basséjn)

References

• “coalfield”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.