Meaning

9 senses
  1. A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.

    Säule

    коло́ннаkolónna, столбstolb

    коло́наkolóna, стовпstovp

    (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure

  2. A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.

    Spalte

    коло́нкаkolónka, графа́grafá, столбе́цstolbéc

    коло́нкаkolónka, графа́hrafá, сто́впчикstóvpčyk

  3. A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.

    Kolonne

    коло́ннаkolónna

    коло́наkolóna

  4. A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent such on a single page.

    It was too hard to read the text across the whole page, so I split it into two columns.

    Spalte, Druckspalte, Kolumne

    столбе́цstolbéc, графа́grafá, коло́нкаkolónka

    коло́нкаkolónka, графа́hrafá, сто́впчикstóvpčyk

  5. A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.

    Each column inch costs $300 a week; this ad is four columns by three inches, so will run $3600 a week.

  6. (broadly)A recurring feature in a periodical, especially an opinion piece, especially by a single author or small rotating group of authors, or on a single theme.

    His initial foray into print media was as the author of a weekly column in his elementary-school newspaper.

    Kolumne

    коло́нкаkolónka, разде́лrazdél, коло́нкаkolónka

    коло́нкаkolónka

  7. Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.

    коло́нкаkolónka, разде́лrazdél, столбstolb

    a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument)

  8. The gynostemium.

  9. An instrument used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds.

    Säule

Examples

58 sentences
  1. Add up this column of figures.

    deSummiere diese Zahlenreihe!

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  2. Tom writes a weekly column for a local newspaper.

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  3. I found this column interesting.

    deIch fand diese Kolumne interessant.

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  4. Tom's column appears weekly.

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  5. The article had three columns.

    Стаття складалася з трьох колонок.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
upright supporting structure:
vertical line of entries in a table:
a vertical body of text:
Русский
By meaning 4
upright supporting structure:
vertical line of entries in a table:
newspaper column:
recurring feature in a periodical:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
upright supporting structure:
vertical line of entries in a table:
column of troops:
a vertical body of text:

Origin

From Middle English columne, columpne, columpe, borrowed from Old French columne, from Lat

From Middle English columne, columpne, columpe, borrowed from Old French columne, from Latin columna (“a column, pillar, post”), originally a collateral form of columen, contraction culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”). Akin to Latin collis (“a hill”), celsus (“high”), probably to Ancient Greek κολοφών (kolophṓn, “top, summit”).

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Forms

plural: columns
Singularcolumn
Pluralcolumns

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
upright structure:postA1pillarsilepier
Close in meaning
  • (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure:pillar
  • a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument):pillar
  • a vertical glass tube used in column chromatography; a mixture is poured in the top and washed through a stationary substance where components of the mixture are adsorbed selectively to form colored bands:chromatography column
  • an article giving opinions or perspectives:editorialnewspaper column
  • anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower:tower-npillar

Antonyms

1 antonyms
line of table entries:rowA1

Word family

57 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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