Meanings
plural column inches
- mediaOne inch of a printed column; a measure of space allocated.
... advertisements, $40 per column inch per year.
1877, Pettengill's newspaper directory and advertisers' hand-book for 1877, page 872 more examples
One mass-circulation Sunday newspaper recently devoted several column inches to an unnecessary weekend working from Stratford to the Essex coast to provide empty stock for an up service that had ceased its high summer running the previous Saturday.
1959 November, “Talking of Trains: The anti-railway prejudice”, in Trains Illustrated, page 517Train operating companies get plenty of column inches in the tabloids, usually for negative reasons. Happily, Southeastern is worthy of praise for having made The Sun for something positive.
2024 February 21, Nick Brodrick, “Inclusion and development for all”, in RAIL, number 1003, page 62
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Finnish palstamillimetri
- palstamillimetrimeasure of space on a newspaper
Cite this entry
column inch. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/column%20inch
“column inch.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/column%20inch. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “column inch,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/column%20inch.
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