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say it: KAH-luhm
column is a noun meaning "a line of units following one after another". It carries 9 recorded senses.
a vertical glass tube used in column chromatography; a mixture is poured in the top and washed through a stationary substance where components of the mixture are adsorbed selectively to form colored bands
a vertical array of numbers or other information
“he added a column of numbers”
an article giving opinions or perspectives
a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument)
a page or text that is vertically divided
“the newspaper devoted several columns to the subject”
“the bookkeeper used pages that were divided into columns”
any tubular or pillar-like supporting structure in the body
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for column come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.