colon

Noun

• a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter)

• a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal

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

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

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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Colon , Aspinwall , Costa Rican colon , El Salvadoran colon