| colon | the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum |
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| colon | a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter) |
| colon | the basic unit of money in Costa Rica |
| colon | the basic unit of money in El Salvador |
| colon | a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal |
| colon | a malignant tumor of the colon |
| colon | a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general |
| colon | a pompous reactionary cartoon character created by Sir David Low |
| colon | (British) any elderly pompous reactionary ultranationalistic person (after the cartoon character created by Sir David Low) |
| colon | a resident of a colony |
| colon | (zoology) composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony |
| colon | of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony |