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Plural of column

regular plural

The plural of column is columns.

Forms of column

Singularcolumn /ˈkɒləm/
Pluralcolumns /ˈkɑləmz/
Countablecountable

Columns in a sentence

  • It was too hard to read the text across the whole page, so I split it into two columns.
  • Each column inch costs $300 a week; this ad is four columns by three inches, so will run $3600 a week.
  • Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.From the entry have
  • If you stack high columns of these boxes without using interleafs they'll fall apart.From the entry interleaf
  • The columns slenderly rose to support a heavy platform and statue.From the entry slenderly

Meaning of column

  1. noun A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.
  2. noun A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.
  3. noun A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.

Full definition of column

Questions about the plural of column

What is the plural of column?
The plural of column is columns.
Is column countable?
Column is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: column (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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