Column Definition

kŏləm
columns
noun
columns
A slender upright structure, generally consisting of a cylindrical shaft, a base, and a capital; pillar: it is usually a supporting or ornamental member in a building.
Webster's New World
Any slender vertical support, as of steel or reinforced concrete.
American Heritage
Anything like a column in shape or function.
A column of smoke, the spinal column.
Webster's New World
Any of the vertical sections of words or data that are displayed side by side, as on a newspaper page, separated by a rule or blank space.
Webster's New World

In a table, any of the parallel series of cells running up and down.

Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Column

Noun

Singular:
column
Plural:
columns

Origin of Column

  • From Old French columne, from Latin columna (“a column, pillar, post”), originally a collateral form of columen, contraction culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”), o-grade form from a Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“going around”). Akin to Latin collis (“a hill”), celsus (“high”), probably to Ancient Greek κολοφών (kolophōn, “top, summit”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English columne from Latin columna kel-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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