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columnar

[kuh-luhm-ner]

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adjective

shaped like a column.

characterized by columns: columnar architecture.

Also, co·lum·nal. printed, arranged, etc., in columns: data in columnar form.

Origin:
1720–30; < Late Latin columnāris, equivalent to column(a) column + -āris -ar¹

Related forms

col·um·nar·i·ty

[kol-uhm-nar-i-tee] , noun

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Columnar is always a great word to know.

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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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column (ˈkɒləm)

—n
1.	an upright post or pillar usually having a cylindrical shaft, a base, and a capital
2.	a. a form or structure in the shape of a column: a column of air
	b. a monument
3.	a row, line, or file, as of people in a queue
4.	military a narrow formation in which individuals or units follow one behind the other
5.	journalism
	a. any of two or more vertical sections of type on a printed page, esp on a newspaper page
	b. a regular article or feature in a paper: the fashion column
6.	a vertical array of numbers or mathematical terms
7.	botany a long structure in a flower, such as that of an orchid, consisting of the united stamens and style
8.	anatomy, zoology any elongated structure, such as a tract of grey matter in the spinal cord or the stalk of a crinoid

[C15: from Latin columna, from columen top, peak; related to Latin collis hill]

columnar

—*adj*

'columned

—*adj*

columnated

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

columnar

1728, from L.L. columnaris, from columna "column" (see column).

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co·lum·nar