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colon   (TTS Sound)

The noun colon has 5 senses

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


• colon, El Salvadoran colon -- (the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos)


• colon, Costa Rican colon -- (the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos)


• Colon, Aspinwall -- (a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal)


• 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))