WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
co•lum•nar
(kə lum′nər),USA pronunciation adj.
col•um•nar•i•ty
(kol′əm nar′i tē),USA pronunciation n.
- shaped like a column.
- characterized by columns:columnar architecture.
- Also, co•lum′nal. printed, arranged, etc., in columns:data in columnar form.
- Late Latin columnāris, equivalent. to column(a) column + -āris -ar1
- 1720–30;
'columnar' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Giant's Causeway
- Hicks yew
- Lombardy poplar
- Monument
- basalt
- basement
- brontosaur
- circumcolumnar
- column
- columnar epithelium
- columnar jointing
- columnarized
- cycad
- elm
- old-man cactus
- organ-pipe cactus
- pedestal
- polyp
- poplar
- proboscidean
- sea anemone
- stromatolite
- stylolite
- subcolumnar
- supercolumnar
- trap