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.
Other meanings
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.
Related words
- sixth column
- columnist
- multiple-column
- column stinkhorn
- column-wise
- Hathor column
- nanocolumn
- balloon column
- Taylor column
- supercolumn
- columnal
- columnar
Word history
From Latin "columna" (a column, pillar, post).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “column” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.