columbia
IPA: kʌɫˈʌmbiʌ
Root Word: Columbia
noun
- (poetic) America; the United States; an appellation given in honor of Christopher Columbus.
- (dated) A female personification of the United States.
- A river in British Columbia, Canada and in Washington and Oregon, United States, flowing from the Canadian Rockies to the Pacific Ocean.
- Several places in the United States.
- The capital city of South Carolina, and the county seat of Richland County.
- A town in Houston County, Alabama.
- A neighborhood of San Diego, California.
- A census-designated place in Tuolumne County, California.
- A town in Tolland County, Connecticut.
- A city in Monroe County, Illinois.
- An unincorporated community in Fayette County, Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Marion County, Iowa.
- A city, the county seat of Adair County, Kentucky.
- A town, the parish seat of Caldwell Parish, Louisiana.
- A town in Washington County, Maine.
- A census-designated place and planned community in Howard County, Maryland.
- A city, the county seat of Marion County, Mississippi, named for the city in South Carolina.
- A city, the county seat of Boone County, Missouri.
- A town in Coos County, New Hampshire.
- A census-designated place in Warren County, New Jersey.
- A town in Herkimer County, New York.
- A town, the county seat of Tyrrell County, North Carolina.
- An unincorporated community in Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Williams County, Ohio.
- A borough of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
- A city in Brown County, South Dakota.
- A city, the county seat of Maury County, Tennessee.
- An unincorporated community in Fluvanna County, Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in Clark County, Wisconsin.
- Columbia University.
- Space Shuttle Columbia, named after the Columbia Rediviva ship.
- (geology) A supercontinent thought to have existed in the Paleoproterozoic.
- A rural locality in northeast Queensland, Australia.
- Misspelling of Colombia. [A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Colombia. Capital: Bogotá.]
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Examples of "columbia" in Sentences
- Stabilization of the Columbia has begun.
- There is a competition of surrey in Columbia.
- Foreman practiced law in the District of Columbia.
- The Columbia was the first ever reusable aircraft.
- The two Columbia carousels are the traditional style of carousel.
- The mascot is the husky and colors are navy blue and columbia blue.
- Yes outdoorsmen do buy name brands such as columbia, woolrich, etc.
- Records of the boreal toad from the Yukon and northern British Columbia.
- The appeal was based on the dissent in the British Columbia Court of Appeal.
- The collision was related to the amalgamation of the supercontinent Columbia.
- The Harlequin Duck is the symbol of the Land Conservancy of British Columbia.
- i live here in columbia, sc and i am MORE than ashamed of the fact he is our Gov.
- Pull the dams on the lower snake and columbia, build some more Nuclear plants ....
- When we last returned to the US from Mexico on the Sunday after New Years we were in the line to cross at the columbia crossing for 13 hours, finally crossing at 1: 30 am.
- Many of my teachers besides for being brilliant (many of my teachers graduated from top colleges such as columbia brandies harvard etc.) many of my teachers have changed my life.
- I bielieve that she is the best because she has a plan. but im not voting for her because she is white most of my friends are black some are for obama a few for hillary. im a student of a middle school in columbia South Carolina.
- February 16th, 2009 at 11: 14 am of all of our alleged enemies, Venezuela is the only one with whom we don’t really have any disagreements except over third-party issues. except they won’t privatize the oil industry so they’re our mortal enemies, not like their enlightened neighbors in columbia, death squads and all.
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