columnar

[ kuh-luhm-ner ]

/ kəˈlʌm nər /

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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.

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Origin of columnar

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

OTHER WORDS FROM columnar

col·um·nar·i·ty

[kol-uhm-nar-i-tee], /ˌkɒl əmˈnær ɪ ti/, noun

Words nearby columnar

Columbus, Christopher, Columbus Day, columella, columelliform, column, columnar, columnar epithelium, columnarized, columnar jointing, column dress, columnea

How to use columnar in a sentence

Fragment, apparently from a columnar mass, of a stone intermediate between clink-stone and compact felspar.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]|Phillip Parker King
The north of Blue-Mud Bay has furnished also specimens of ancient sandstone; with columnar rocks, probably of clink-stone.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]|Phillip Parker King
Michael was informed of their disgrace by dark-eyed Mallock whose father wrote columnar letters to The Times.
Sinister Street, vol. 1|Compton Mackenzie
The great columnar rampart ran almost north and south and the tent was on its eastern side.
The Home of the Blizzard|Douglas Mawson

Long years of labor by artists the most unconscious of their skill had been given to modelling these columnar firs.
Your National Parks|Enos A. Mills