Usually means: Supporting structure, typically vertical, architectural.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. column: Merriam-Webster
  2. column: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. column: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. column: Collins English Dictionary
  5. column: Vocabulary.com
  6. Column, column: Wordnik
  7. column: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. column: Wiktionary
  9. column: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. column: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. column: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. column: Dictionary.com
  13. column: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. column: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Column (architecture), Column (botany), Column (data store), Column (database), Column (disambiguation), Column (formation), Column (military), Column (newspaper), Column (periodical), Column (tree), Column (typography), Column, The Column: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Column: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. column: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. column: Rhymezone
  19. column, column (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. column: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Column: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. column: FreeDictionary.org
  23. column: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Column: World Wide Words
  25. column: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. column: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. column: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Glossary: Gothic Art and Architecture (No longer online)
  3. column: Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture
  4. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. column: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. column: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. column: CCI Computer
  3. Column: Database Glossary
  4. Webopedia (No longer online)
  5. Column (botany), Column (formation), column: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. column: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. column: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Column: Castle Terms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Column: Catholic Encyclopedia

Science (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. ORCHID GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  3. Column: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  4. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  5. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  6. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  7. Column: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  8. column: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)
  2. Column: Sports Definitions

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. column: Glossary of Medieval Architecture
  3. COLUMN: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary
  4. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  5. Column: Construction Glossary
  6. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See columned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (architecture) A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.
noun:  A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.
noun:  A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.
noun:  A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent such on a single page.
noun:  A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.
noun:  (by extension) A recurring feature in a periodical, especially an opinion piece, especially by a single author or small rotating group of authors, or on a single theme.
noun:  Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.
noun:  (botany) The gynostemium
noun:  chemistry An instrument used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds.

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