columncolumn /ˈkɑləm/ ●●○ W3 noun [countable] 1
a tall solid upright post made of stone, wood, etc. and used to support a building or as a decoration: a row of Greek columns2an article on a particular subject or by a particular writer that appears regularly in a newspaper or magazine: an advice column His column appears every other week in the local paper. She writes a sports column for the Dallas Evening News.3one of two or more lines of print that go down the page of a newspaper or book and that are separated from each other by a narrow space: It’s on page 50 in the right-hand column.4a)a line of numbers or words written under each other that goes down a page: a column of figures b)math one of two or more areas in a table (=organized set of information) that go down the page rather than across5something that has a long thin shape, like a column: The car has an adjustable steering column.column of Firefighters battled columns of flames.6a long moving line of people or things: Columns of factory workers waved banners. → see also fifth column, spinal column [Origin: 1400–1500 Old French colomne, from Latin columna, from columen top]
a tall solid upright post made of stone, wood, etc. and used to support a building or as a decoration: a row of Greek columns2an article on a particular subject or by a particular writer that appears regularly in a newspaper or magazine: an advice column His column appears every other week in the local paper. She writes a sports column for the Dallas Evening News.3one of two or more lines of print that go down the page of a newspaper or book and that are separated from each other by a narrow space: It’s on page 50 in the right-hand column.4a)a line of numbers or words written under each other that goes down a page: a column of figures b)math one of two or more areas in a table (=organized set of information) that go down the page rather than across5something that has a long thin shape, like a column: The car has an adjustable steering column.column of Firefighters battled columns of flames.6a long moving line of people or things: Columns of factory workers waved banners. → see also fifth column, spinal column [Origin: 1400–1500 Old French colomne, from Latin columna, from columen top]