Synonyms of columns

columns

noun

plural of column

1

as in rows

a series of persons or things arranged one behind another

a column of ants stretched between the fallen hot dog and the ant hill

Synonyms & Similar Words

• rows
• lines
• queues
• files
• strings
• trains
• ranges
• cues
• ranks
• chains
• sequences
• tiers
• arrays
• echelons
• progressions
• successions

2

as in pilasters

an upright shaft that supports an overhead structure

engraved columns supported the arch on either side

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pilasters
• pillars
• piers
• posts
• stanchions
• pedestals
• buttresses
• piles
• caryatids
• obelisks
• needles
• pilings
• flying buttresses

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of columns

The Lobby serves Hong Kong’s most famous afternoon tea between Corinthian columns. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2026

Former Times classical music critic Mark Swed returned for the first in an ongoing series of monthly columns. — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026

Eudora’s outline is visibly backlit by a low late afternoon sun as her shadow is cast across the patchy grass of a pathway that leads to a ruin of Corinthian columns. — Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2026

Two support columns helped make the DJ stand feel built-in, and Phelps added cascading fabric, plants, and rows of candles, a design based on a party image Hubley had taken. — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 5 Nov. 2026

The exterior facade is rendered in Santo Tomás marble, quarried in Mexico, which is also used on the interior as accents on display cases and columns. — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 4 Nov. 2026

Its Romanesque façade was disguised as a grand Southern plantation—four towering white columns were erected to support a temporary façade with floral garlands, potted trees, and an enormous portrait of Leigh and Gable hung above the entrance. — Serena Turner, Vanity Fair, 3 Nov. 2026

Even in warm weather, thunderstorms generate powerful updrafts, or columns of rising air that cool rapidly. — Holly Yan, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2026

The frontier labs are good at the language and reasoning columns. — Stephen Messer, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2026