Noun: column
| Singular | column |
| Plural | columns |
Sample Sentences
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It was too hard to read the text across the whole page, so I split it into two columns.
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Each column inch costs $300 a week; this ad is four columns by three inches, so will run $3600 a week.
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His initial foray into print media was as the author of a weekly column in his elementary-school newspaper.
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I have always argued that despite my opposition to rail privatisation, I should be grateful that John Major won the 1992 election on a platform to sell off the railways, as otherwise my column would have disappeared given the paucity of things to write about. [2024 January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change? ... just as it was back in issue 262”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 60:]
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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. [1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:]
Nouns inflected like column
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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”). Akin to Latin collis (“a hill”), celsus (“high”), probably to Ancient Greek κολοφών (kolophṓn, “top, summit”). See: Middle English Nouns '
columne', Latin Nouns '
columna', Latin Nouns '
collis', Ancient Greek Nouns '
κολοφών'.
Verbs referencing "column"
Dutch Nouns
column, Finnish Nouns
kolumni.