column

• col‧umn [countable]
• 1 a tall solid upright stone post used to support a building or as a decoration
• 2 a line of numbers or words written under each other that goes down a page [↪ row]
• in a column
• Add up the numbers in each column.
• column of
• a column of figures
• 3 an article on a particular subject or by a particular writer that appears regularly in a newspaper or magazine:
• He writes a weekly column for 'The Times'.
• music/science/gardening etc column
• 4 one of two or more areas of print that go down the page of a newspaper or book and that are separated from each other by a narrow space:
• Turn to Page 5, column 2.
• 'The Sun' devoted 10 column inches to the event (=their article filled a column ten inches long).
• 5 something that has a tall thin shape
• column of
• a column of smoke
• 6 a long moving line of people or things
• column of
• a column of marching men
• ➔ fifth column, gossip column, personal column, spinal column
• WORD FOCUS: newspaper 
• the press newspapers in general
• the media newspaper, TV, and radio
• tabloid a newspaper that does not contain much serious news, and mainly has short articles and photographs
• broadsheet British English/quality paper American English a newspaper that mostly contains reports about serious news
• journalist/reporter someone whose job is writing articles for newspapers
• headline the title of a newspaper report, written in big letters
• article a piece of writing about something in a newspaper
• column an article that appears regularly in a newspaper, in which someone writes about their opinions
• editorial a piece of writing in which the newspaper gives its comments on recent events
• the front page (which has the main news stories)
• the back page (which has the less important news, and news about sport)
• the sports/television/fashion/arts etc page

➔ See also newspaper

Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.