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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 perspectivesplay

  Familiarity information: NEWSPAPER COLUMN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NEWSPAPER COLUMN (noun)


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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