Columbus
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /kəˈlʌmbəs/
- A male given name.
- Surname
- Christopher Columbus (1451?–1506), Italian explorer of the Americas.
- Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States.
. - A city/county seat in Muscogee County, Georgia, with which it is consolidated.
- A village in Adams County, Illinois.
- A city/county seat in Bartholomew County, Indiana.
- A city/county seat in Cherokee County, Kansas.
- A tiny home rule city in Hickman County, Kentucky.
- A small city in Anoka County, Minnesota.
- A city/county seat in Lowndes County, Mississippi.
- An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Missouri.
- A town/county seat in Stillwater County, Montana.
- A city/county seat in Platte County, Nebraska.
- An unincorporated community in Burlington County, New Jersey.
- A village in Luna County, New Mexico.
- A town in Chenango County, New York.
- A town/county seat in Polk County, North Carolina.
- A tiny city in Burke County, North Dakota.
- A small city/county seat in Colorado County, Texas.
- A small city in Columbia County, and.
- A town in Columbia County, Wisconsin.
- (capital city of Ohio) Col's
- Russian: Колу́мбус
- Italian: Colombo
- Russian: Колу́мбус
- French: Colomb, Christophe Colomb
- German: Kolumbus, Christoph Kolumbus, Christoph Columbus, Christoph Colon
- Italian: Cristoforo Colombo, Colombo
- Portuguese: Colombo
- Russian: Колу́мб
- Spanish: Cristóbal Colón, Colón
Columbus (Columbuses, present participle Columbusing; past and past participle Columbused)
- (possibly dated, slang) To explore; to go around exploring, to go around as an explorer.
- 1893, American Boys Afloat: Or, Cruising in the Orient, page 150:
- "But, boy the powers of mud, I belayve you fellers mane to make an indepindint cruise in the Orient, and go Columbusing all over the ocean boy the way ye's talk!"
- 1908, Out West, volume 28, page 90:
- Callous as the old mummy was about anything and everything save his pet hobby, archaeology, he would sit up and take notice of such a vision ; and Peter felt that, having Columbused the discovery, he had the better right to it.
- 1908, Sunset, volume 20, page 271:
- To the west of the river lay the country in which I went Columbusing — the enchanted desert whose southern boundary was where the sky reached down and merged with the earth curve, and whose northern limit was the Harqua Hala range […]
- 1921, Forest Leaves, volume 15, page lxx:
- No street car line passes it, so you'll have to do a little Columbusing on your own account-to find it-—but it's worth discovering, and President Gardner's phophecy sounds conservative.
- 1893, American Boys Afloat: Or, Cruising in the Orient, page 150:
- To appropriate; to lay claim to something, especially a discovery, which belongs to someone else.
- 2014, NPR: 'Columbusing': The Art Of Discovering Something That Is Not New:
- Of course, there is no bouncer, but we can be careful not to Columbus other culture's traditions.
- 2015, Elucidating Social Science Concepts: An Interpretivist Guide:
- It is control of stories and storytelling that are ultimately at stake for this blogger and for others who speak of Columbusing in Washington, DC […]
- 2014, NPR: 'Columbusing': The Art Of Discovering Something That Is Not New:
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