column
A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.
Noun 4 meanings
A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.
A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.
A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.
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.”
Etymology
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”).
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COLUMN at a glance
COLUMN has 6 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (C 3 + O 1 + L 1 + U 1 + M 3 + N 1) and 15 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,988 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with column
All rhymes- AUTUMN8
- MULTICOLUMN17
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