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cols

cols is the plural of col.

Meaning of col

Noun

col (plural cols)

  1. A dip on a mountain ridge between two peaks.
    • We spent half an hour on the summit before returning to our camp, where we stuffed the frozen tent and all the gear into our packs and started the long descent of the southwest ridge to rejoin Harish and others who were still encamped on the col at the foot of it.1999, Harish Kapadia, “Ascents in the Panch Chuli Group”, in Across Peaks & Passes in Kumaun Himalaya, New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 136
    Synonyms:
    nek
  2. A pressure region between two anticyclones and two low-pressure regions.
    Synonyms:
    saddle point

See all 3 meanings of col

Noun capitalized: COLs

COLs

  1. (plural) plural of COL

Questions about cols

What is cols the plural of?
Cols is the plural of col.
What part of speech is cols?
Cols is a noun.

Words near cols in the dictionary

  1. Colquitts
  2. Colrain
  3. COLREG
  4. COLREGS
  5. Colridge
  6. cols
  7. cols.
  8. Colson
  9. colstaff
  10. colstaves
  11. Colsterworth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cols (page history and authors); COLs (page history and authors); col (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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