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NEWSPAPER COLUMN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does newspaper column mean?
• NEWSPAPER COLUMN (noun)
The noun NEWSPAPER COLUMN has 1 sense:
1. an article giving opinions or perspectives
Familiarity information: NEWSPAPER COLUMN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An article giving opinions or perspectives
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
column; editorial; newspaper column
Hypernyms ("newspaper column" is a kind of...):
article (nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "newspaper column"):
agony column (a newspaper column devoted to personal problems)
Holonyms ("newspaper column" is a part of...):
newspaper; paper (a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements)
Context examples
Mr. Higginbotham liked the word, which was a new one in his vocabulary, recently gleaned from a newspaper column.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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