Topic: BUILDINGS
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| Date: | 1400-1500 |
| Language: | Old French |
| Origin: | colomne, from Latin columna, from columen 'top' |
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col‧umn S2 W2
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[countable]1TBB a tall solid upright stone post used to support a building or as a decoration
2 a line of numbers or words written under each other that goes down a page [↪ row]
3TCN an article on a particular subject or by a particular writer that appears regularly in a newspaper or magazine :
4TCN one of two or more areas of print that go down the page of a newspaper or book and that are separated from each other by a narrow space : Turn to Page 5, column 2.
Turn to Page 5, column 2.6 a long moving line of people or things
column of a column of marching men
a column of marching men ➔ fifth column, gossip column, personal column, spinal columnWORD FOCUS: newspaper WORD FOCUS: newspaper
the press newspapers in general
the media newspaper, TV, and radio
tabloid a newspaper that does not contain much serious news, and mainly has short articles and photographs
broadsheet British English/quality paper American English a newspaper that mostly contains reports about serious news
journalist/reporter someone whose job is writing articles for newspapers
headline the title of a newspaper report, written in big letters
article a piece of writing about something in a newspaper
column an article that appears regularly in a newspaper, in which someone writes about their opinions
editorial a piece of writing in which the newspaper gives its comments on recent events
the front page (which has the main news stories)
the back page (which has the less important news, and news about sport)
the sports/television/fashion/arts etc page
➔ See also newspaper
WORD FOCUS: newspaper the press newspapers in general
the media newspaper, TV, and radio
tabloid a newspaper that does not contain much serious news, and mainly has short articles and photographs
broadsheet British English/quality paper American English a newspaper that mostly contains reports about serious news
journalist/reporter someone whose job is writing articles for newspapers
headline the title of a newspaper report, written in big letters
article a piece of writing about something in a newspaper
column an article that appears regularly in a newspaper, in which someone writes about their opinions
editorial a piece of writing in which the newspaper gives its comments on recent events
the front page (which has the main news stories)
the back page (which has the less important news, and news about sport)
the sports/television/fashion/arts etc page
➔ See also newspaper
