col.
col. is the abbreviation of column.
col. is the abbreviation of colonel.
col. is the abbreviation of colour.
Meaning of column
Noun
column (plural columns)
- A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.
- A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.
- A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.
- A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent such on a single page.
- It was too hard to read the text across the whole page, so I split it into two columns.
- A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.
- Each column inch costs $300 a week; this ad is four columns by three inches, so will run $3600 a week.
- 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.
- His initial foray into print media was as the author of a weekly column in his elementary-school newspaper.
Meaning of colonel
Noun
colonel (plural colonels)
- A commissioned officer in an armed military organization, typically the highest rank before flag officer ranks (generals). It is generally found in armies, air forces or naval infantry (marines).
- The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
- A military leader, distinct from the modern professional military rank.
- General Charles-Maximilian Fiennes was made colonel of the army.2009, Ranulph Fiennes, chapter 21, in Mad Dogs and Englishmen: An Expedition Round My Family, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 284
- An honorary civilian title bestowed by some southern US states, most commonly Kentucky; notably Colonel Sanders of KFC.
- "Colonel" was often used as an honorific, indicating no actual military service: between 1792 and 1916, according to Ron Bryant, a curator at the Kentucky Historical Society, 400 of the 650 colonels commissioned were honorary.2002, Kate Chopin and Anna Julia Cooper, “Critiquing Kentucky and the South”, in The Southern Literary Journal, volume 35, number 1, page 127
- An informal title used to address an elderly man.
- A form of address for an auctioneer, from the American Civil War practice of commanding officers organizing the public sale of seized goods.
Proper noun capitalized: Col.
Col.
- Abbreviation of Colossians.
- Abbreviation of Colorado: a state of the United States.
Noun capitalized: Col.
Col. (plural Cols.)
- Abbreviation of colonel.
- […] Samuel White, of said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit: “History of the American Troops, during the late war, under the command of Cols. Fenton and Campbell, giving an account of the crossing of...1829, Philip Moore, “District of Maryland, ss.”, in Samuel White, History of the American Troops, during the Late War, under the Command of Cols. Fenton and Campbell. […], Baltimore, Md.: Published...
- The idea of rank and station was rigidly maintained on Col. Lloyd's plantation. Our family never visited the great house, and the Lloyds never came to our home. Equal non-intercourse was observed between Capt. Anthony's family and that of Mr. Sevier, the overseer.1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 3, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC
Synonyms of col.
Forms of col.
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Words formed from col.
Questions about col.
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- Col. is the abbreviation of column.
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