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colon

/ˈkoʊ.lən/noun2 syllables

Colon means: a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal.

Synonyms for colon4

noun, as in a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal

Aspinwall

noun, as in the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos

El Salvadoran colon

noun, as in the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos

Costa Rican colon

also used for colon

colon-point

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What does colon mean?5

noun

1

a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal

2

the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos

3

the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos

4

the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted

5

a punctuation mark (‘:’) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter)

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with colon?2

two syllables

stolenswollen
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Colon in a sentence

  • They say nitrite is harmful to the colon.mervert1
  • Bogdan Tanjević will resign because of colon cancer.unknown
  • Bogdan Tanevich is retiring due to colon cancer.captcrouton
  • A space is missing before the colon.Eldad
  • A colon is a punctuation mark.AlanF_US
  • Bogdan Tanevich resigned because of colon cancer.emory989

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Forms of colon

as a noun

plural
cola