It would be very useful if the Confluence Wiki markup supported HTML definition lists (i.e. the <dl>, <dt>, <dd> elements). This is supported by other Wikis as for example JSPWiki, TikiWiki, and Meatball Wiki.

The proposed markup syntax would be:

;term one: definition of term one.
;term two:longer definition of
term two.

This would result in:

<dl>
<dt>term one</dt>
<dd>definition of term one.</dd>
<dt>term two</dt>
<dd>longer definition of
term two.</dd>
</dl>

An alternative syntax would be:

*;term:definition