colon

1. 1.

   the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted

   Broaderlarge intestine

   Narrowermegacolontransverse colonascending colondescending colonsigmoid colon

   Partssigmoid vein
2. 2.

   the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos

   SynonymsEl Salvadoran colon

   BroaderEl Salvadoran monetary unit

   Partscentavo
3. 3.

   the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos

   SynonymsCosta Rican colon

   BroaderCosta Rican monetary unit

   Partscentimo
4. 4.

   a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal

   SynonymsAspinwall

   Broadercityport

   Part ofPanama
5. 5.

   a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter)

   Broaderpunctuation

Other forms of colon

plural

cola

plural

colones

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about colon

What does colon mean?

colon means "the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in colon?

colon has 2 syllables: co-lon. The stress falls on "co". In IPA it is /ˈkoʊlən/.

What is another word for colon?

Close synonyms include El Salvadoran colon, Costa Rican colon, Aspinwall. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is colon a common word?

colon is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.