And how many angels dance around the head of a pin? The person who corrected you could themselves be corrected.
Table = Relation
Row = Tuple
Column = Attribute
Domain = Data Type
See here.
I worked for an airline and the word "flight" could be used in three different ways depending on whether you were talking to flight crew, engineers or marketing. The spreadsheet analogy is more than good enough for 99.99% of cases, even in reasonably technical speech (unless one is a professor of relational algebra). Does the person who corrected you use the word "whom" correctly? 99.99% of people don't and it really doesn't matter.