Column

Quick meaning: Column is a noun meaning A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.
2. A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent such on a single page.
3. A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.
4. Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.
5. (botany) The gynostemium
6. (architecture) A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.
7. (by extension) 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.

Example Sentences

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

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

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

The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.

Word Forms

• columns

Synonyms for column

Depending on context, synonyms include post, pillar, sile, pier, tower, editorial.

Antonyms for column

Common opposites include row.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pillar, tower, editorial, columnar, monolith, bar.

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