1 a tall solid vertical post made of stone, supporting or decorating a building or standing alone 石柱；支柱: Nelson's Column is a monument in London. 纳尔逊石柱是伦敦的一座纪念碑。

2 something that has the shape of a column 柱状物: a column of smoke (=smoke rising straight up) 一柱烟

3 one of the vertical sections into which a printed page, especially in a newspaper, is divided 栏（尤指报纸的）

4 a piece of writing in a newspaper or magazine that is part of a regular series or always written by the same writer ﹙报纸﹑杂志上的﹚专栏: the travel/gossip column 旅游╱闲谈专栏

5 a series of numbers written one under the other 纵列数字: to add up a column of figures 把纵列数字加起来

6 a long line of people, vehicles, etc, one following behind another 一列（人、车等）: a column of troops 一列士兵