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• the temple is supported by marble columns.
• nelson’s column in london
• a column of smoke (= smoke rising straight up)
• a column of text

column

1. a tall, solid, vertical post, usually round and made of stone, which supports or decorates a building or stands alone as a monument
• The temple is supported by marble columns.
• Nelson’s Column in London
2. a thing shaped like a column
• see also spinal column
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/spinal-column
• a column of smoke (= smoke rising straight up)
3. one of the vertical sections into which the printed page of a book, newspaper, etc. is divided
• a column of text
• a dictionary with two columns per page
• Put a mark in the appropriate column.
• Their divorce filled a lot of column inches in the national papers (= got a lot of attention).
4. a part of a newspaper or magazine which appears regularly and deals with a particular subject or is written by a particular writer
• see also agony column
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/agony-column
• the gossip/financial column
• I always read her column in the local paper.
5. a series of numbers or words arranged one under the other down a page
• to add up a column of figures
6. a long, moving line of people or vehicles
• see also fifth column
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/fifth-column
• a long column of troops and tanks

Extra Examples

• He has a regular column in a weekly newspaper.
• She saw his name in an obituary column.
• So many column inches are devoted to film stars.
• The roof is supported by four huge columns.
• a column of troops
• a weekly column on films showing in London
• a weekly column on movies showing in the capital
• colonnades of fluted Doric columns
• to march in columns
• Corinthian columns are decorated with leaves at the top.
• He writes a gossip column for the local paper.
• I always read her column in the paper.
• It was an Athenian temple with long colonnades of limestone columns.
• Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square is one of London’s best-known landmarks.
• The churches have classical columns and decoration.
• The temple is supported by fluted marble columns.
• The website runs an online advice column for teenagers.

Word Origin

• late Middle English: partly from Old French columpne, reinforced by its source, Latin columna ‘pillar’.