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colon

co·lon

UK/kəˈlɒn/ US/kəˈloʊn/ fairly common

noun

1.

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

2.

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

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3.

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

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4.

a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal

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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)

Origin

From Latin cōlon (“a member of a verse of poem”), from Ancient Greek κῶλον (kôlon, “a member, limb, clause, part of a verse”).

Phrases

  • curly brackets
  • exclamation mark
  • fraction slash
  • full stop
  • parentheses (US
  • question mark
  • quotation marks
  • square bracket

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