col‧umn S3 W2 / kɒləm $ kɑ- / 名词 [可数名词]

1 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

in a column

Add up the numbers in each column.

column of

a column of figures

3 an article on a particular subject or by a particular writer that appears regularly in a newspaper or magazine :

He writes a weekly column for ‘The Times’.

music/science/gardening etc column

4 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.

‘The Sun’ devoted ten column inches to the event (= their article filled a column ten inches long ) .

5 something that has a tall thin shape

column of

a column of smoke

6 a long moving line of people or things

column of

a column of marching men

→ fifth column , gossip column , personal column , spinal column

COLLOCATIONS

ADJECTIVES/NOUN + column

a newspaper column He’s the writer of a weekly newspaper column.

a weekly/daily/monthly column Her daily column covered a wide range of topics.

a regular column His views were well-known from his regular column in The Spectator magazine.

a gossip column (= one about the private lives of famous people ) She was upset by an item in the Washington Times gossip column.

an editorial column (= that expresses the opinion of a newspaper editor ) the Financial Times editorial column

a financial column He wrote a financial column for the evening newspaper.

a correspondence/letters column (= that prints some of the letters a newspaper receives ) Thousands of letters poured in to the correspondence column.

an obituary column (= about the life of someone who has just died ) I spotted Stephenson’s name in the obituary column.

the personal column British English (= in which people can have personal messages printed ) I put a small advertisement in the personal column of the paper.

an agony column British English (= that gives advice to readers about personal problems ) Romantic relationships are much discussed in all the agony columns.

a lonely hearts column British English (= with advertisements for a new lover or friend ) Some men place advertisements in the lonely hearts columns.

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write a column He writes a column on gardening for the Daily News.

have a column (= write one ) Lynch had a weekly column in a Sydney newspaper.

column + NOUN

column inches (= space in a newspaper or magazine ) Many column inches have recently been devoted to the troubled pop star.