columbian
IPA: koʊɫˈʌmbiʌn
Root Word: Columbian
noun
- An inhabitant of any place called Columbia.
- (dated or poetic) An American, a person from the United States of America.
- A stamp from the Columbian Issue stamps.
- (uncountable, US printing, dated) A size of type between English and great primer, standardized as 16-point.
- Misspelling of Colombian. [A person from Colombia or of Colombian descent.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to Christopher Columbus, an explorer who introduced greatly widened contacts between Eurasia and the Americas, or his life or time.
- Of or from any of the places called Columbia.
- (dated or poetic) American, from the United States of America
- Misspelling of Colombian. [Of, from, or pertaining to Colombia, its people or language.]
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Examples of "columbian" in Sentences
- Pre columbian codices of the Americas.
- Represents a pre Columbian ball player.
- The state fossil is the Columbian mammoth.
- Likes the pre columbian history of Mexico.
- The wheel was unknown in pre Columbian times.
- The mammoth was considered to be a Columbian mammoth.
- The Columbian Theatre fell into this latter category.
- A daykeeper was the name for a diviner in the pre Columbian Maya culture.
- The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 popularized the style in the US.
- The one to the left of the observer, wearing the Columbian cap, is in mourning.