Bogdan Tanjević will resign because of colon cancer.
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Colon
//ˈkoʊ.lən//
Synonyms for "colon" (176 found)
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Closest matches (36)
Strong matches (52)
Related words (88)
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Noun(1 words)
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5 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
27 entriesShowing 16 of 27 words.
derived
35 entriesShowing 16 of 35 words.
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3 entriesholonym
2 entriesis a
5 entriesmeronym
4 entriespart of
3 entriesrelated to
21 entriesShowing 16 of 21 words.
Translations
138 translations across 72 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- dy pika noun (punctuation mark)
Arabic
4 entries- قولون noun (the last part of the digestive system)
- قولون noun (the last part of the digestive system)
- قُولُون noun (the last part of the digestive system)
- نُقْطَة مُزْدَوِجَة noun (punctuation mark)
Asturian
2 entries- colon noun (the last part of the digestive system)
- dos puntos noun (punctuation mark)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- iki nöqtə noun (punctuation mark)
- yoğun bağırsaq noun (the last part of the digestive system)
Bashkir
3 entries- ике нөктә noun (punctuation mark)
- йыуан эсәк noun (the last part of the digestive system)
- туҡ эсәк noun (the last part of the digestive system)
Belarusian
1 entries- двукро́п'е noun (punctuation mark)
Bulgarian
3 entries- двоето́чие noun (punctuation mark)
- колон noun (the last part of the digestive system)
- ободно черво noun (the last part of the digestive system)
Catalan
2 entries- còlon noun (the last part of the digestive system)
- dos punts noun (punctuation mark)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- جووتخاڵ noun (punctuation mark)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 結腸 /结肠 noun (the last part of the digestive system)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 冒號 /冒号 noun (punctuation mark)
- 結腸 /结肠 noun (the last part of the digestive system)
Czech
2 entries- dvojtečka noun (punctuation mark)
- tračník noun (the last part of the digestive system)
Danish
2 entries- kolon noun (punctuation mark)
- tyktarm noun (the last part of the digestive system)
Dutch
3 entries- dubbele punt noun (punctuation mark)
- dubbelpunt noun (punctuation mark)
- karteldarm noun (the last part of the digestive system)
Esperanto
2 entries- dupunkto noun (punctuation mark)
- kojlo noun (the last part of the digestive system)
Estonian
1 entries- koolon noun (punctuation mark)
Faroese
1 entries- kolon noun (punctuation mark)
Finnish
2 entries- kaksoispiste noun (punctuation mark)
- lynkkysuoli noun (the last part of the digestive system)
French
2 entries- côlon noun (the last part of the digestive system)
- deux points noun (punctuation mark)
Galician
2 entries- colon noun (the last part of the digestive system)
- dous puntos noun (punctuation mark)
Georgian
1 entries- ორწერტილი noun (punctuation mark)
German
4 entries- Doppelpunkt noun (punctuation mark)
- Grimmdarm noun (the last part of the digestive system)
- Kolon noun (punctuation mark)
- Kolon noun (the last part of the digestive system)
Greek
2 entries- άνω και κάτω τελεία noun (punctuation mark)
- κόλον noun (the last part of the digestive system)
Hebrew
1 entries- נקודתיים noun (punctuation mark)
Hindi
4 entries- अपूर्ण विराम noun (punctuation mark)
- कॉलन noun (punctuation mark)
- कोलन noun (punctuation mark)
- कोलन noun (the last part of the digestive system)
Hungarian
2 entries- kettőspont noun (punctuation mark)
- vastagbél noun (the last part of the digestive system)
Ido
1 entries- bipunto noun (punctuation mark)
Indonesian
1 entries- titik dua noun (punctuation mark)
Interlingua
1 entries- duo punctos noun (punctuation mark)
Irish
2 entries- drólann noun (the last part of the digestive system)
- idirstad noun (punctuation mark)
Italian
1 entries- due punti noun (punctuation mark)
Japanese
2 entries- コロン noun (punctuation mark)
- 大腸 noun (the last part of the digestive system)
Kazakh
1 entries- қос нүкте noun (punctuation mark)
Korean
4 entries- 굵은밸 noun (the last part of the digestive system)
- 대장 noun (the last part of the digestive system)
- 쌍점 noun (punctuation mark)
- 콜론 noun (punctuation mark)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- кош чекит noun (punctuation mark)
Latvian
1 entries- kols noun (punctuation mark)
Lithuanian
2 entries- dvitaškis noun (punctuation mark)
- gaubtinė žarna noun (the last part of the digestive system)
Macedonian
2 entries- две точки noun (punctuation mark)
- дебело црево noun (the last part of the digestive system)
Malagasy
1 entries- teboka roa noun (punctuation mark)
Maltese
1 entries- kolon noun (the last part of the digestive system)
Marathi
2 entries- बृहदांत्र noun (the last part of the digestive system)
- मोठे आतडे noun (the last part of the digestive system)
Mongolian
1 entries- давхар цэг noun (punctuation mark)
Moore
1 entries- tẽg-yɩɩbre noun (punctuation mark)
Māori
2 entries- kopirua noun (punctuation mark)
- kōpiro nui noun (the last part of the digestive system)
Navajo
1 entries- achʼíídííl noun (the last part of the digestive system)
Norwegian
2 entries- endetarm noun (the last part of the digestive system)
- kolon noun (punctuation mark)
Occitan
1 entries- colon noun (the last part of the digestive system)
Persian
2 entries- دونقطه noun (punctuation mark)
- کولون noun (the last part of the digestive system)
Polish
2 entries- dwukropek noun (punctuation mark)
- okrężnica noun (the last part of the digestive system)
Portuguese
2 entries- cólon noun (the last part of the digestive system)
- dois-pontos noun (punctuation mark)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਦੁਬਿੰਦੀ noun (punctuation mark)
Romanian
1 entries- două puncte noun (punctuation mark)
Russian
3 entries- двоето́чие noun (punctuation mark)
- ободо́чная кишка́ noun (the last part of the digestive system)
- то́лстая кишка́ noun (the last part of the digestive system)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- caolan mòr noun (the last part of the digestive system)
- còilean noun (punctuation mark)
- dà-phuing noun (punctuation mark)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- dvotačka noun (punctuation mark)
- dvotočje noun (punctuation mark)
- dvotočka noun (punctuation mark)
- двотачка noun (punctuation mark)
Sicilian
1 entries- du' punti noun (punctuation mark)
Slovak
2 entries- dvojbodka noun (punctuation mark)
- hrubé črevo noun (the last part of the digestive system)
Slovene
3 entries- danka noun (the last part of the digestive system)
- debelo črevo noun (the last part of the digestive system)
- dvopičje noun (punctuation mark)
Spanish
2 entries- colon noun (the last part of the digestive system)
- dos puntos noun (punctuation mark)
Swahili
2 entries- koloni noun (punctuation mark)
- nukta mbili noun (punctuation mark)
Swedish
3 entries- grovtarm noun (the last part of the digestive system)
- kolon noun (punctuation mark)
- tjocktarm noun (the last part of the digestive system)
Tagalog
1 entries- tutuldok noun (punctuation mark)
Tajik
2 entries- аломати баён noun (punctuation mark)
- ду нуқта noun (punctuation mark)
Tamil
2 entries- பெருங்குடல் noun (the last part of the digestive system)
- முக்காற்புள்ளி noun (punctuation mark)
Thai
1 entries- ทวิภาค noun (punctuation mark)
Turkish
3 entries- iki nokta noun (punctuation mark)
- iki nokta üst üste noun (punctuation mark)
- kolon noun (the last part of the digestive system)
Ukrainian
1 entries- двокра́пка noun (punctuation mark)
Uyghur
1 entries- قوش چېكىت noun (punctuation mark)
Uzbek
2 entries- ikki nuqta noun (punctuation mark)
- qoʻsh nuqta noun (punctuation mark)
Vietnamese
1 entries- dấu hai chấm noun (punctuation mark)
Volapük
1 entries- krasum noun (the last part of the digestive system)
Welsh
2 entries- colon noun (punctuation mark)
- colon noun (the last part of the digestive system)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
The French are a really strange people: every other person who reads this sentence will check if the space before the colon is really thin and non-breaking.
Source: tatoeba (765014)
In my language, the "," is called comma, the ";" is called semicolon, ":" is called colon, "..." are called ellipsis, and this sentence ends with a period.
Source: tatoeba (1336028)
Bogdan Tanevich resigned because of colon cancer.
Source: tatoeba (1539861)
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