COLON

Colon

The colon is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots centered on the same vertical line. A colon is used to explain or start an enumeration. A colon is also used with ratios, titles and subtitles of books, city and publisher in bibliographies, business letter salutation, hours and minutes, and formal letters.

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colon

Noun

  1. The punctuation mark "''".
  2. The triangular colon (especially in context of not being able to type the actual triangular colon).
  3. A rhetorical figure consisting of a clause which is grammatically, but not logically, complete.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. Part of the large intestine; the final segment of the digestive system, after (distal to) the ileum and before (proximal to) the anus

Noun (etymology 3)

  1. A husbandman.
  2. A European colonial settler, especially in a French colony.


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