EGAVE

colon

About 7.04 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The punctuation mark ⟨:⟩.
  2. noun The triangular colon (especially in context of not being able to type the actual triangular colon).
  3. noun A rhetorical figure consisting of a clause which is grammatically, but not logically, complete.
  4. noun A clause or group of clauses written as a line, or taken as a standard of measure in ancient manuscripts or texts.
  5. noun Part of the large intestine; the final segment of the digestive system, after (distal to) the ileum and before (proximal to) the rectum. (Because the colon is the largest part of the large intestine (constituting most of it), it is often treated as synonymous therewith in broad or casual usage.)
  6. noun A husbandman.
  7. noun A European colonial settler, especially in a French colony.

Similar words

costa rican colon el salvadoran colon comma appendix pioneer settler colonel punk pollution coma

Often followed by

and cancer is rectum in to or bacillus carcinoma

Word family

Colon cola colone colones colons

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