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Definition of Columbian
1. Adjective. Of or relating to Christopher Columbus.
Definition of Columbian
1. a. Of or pertaining to the United States, or to America.
Definition of Columbian
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to (w Christopher Columbus), the discoverer of America, or his life or time. ¹
2. Adjective. Of or from any of the places called (w Columbia). ¹
3. Adjective. (dated or poetic) American, from the United States of America ¹
4. Adjective. (misspelling of Colombian) ¹
5. Noun. One of the (w Columbian Issue) stamps. ¹
6. Noun. An inhabitant of any of the places called (w Columbia) ¹
7. Noun. (dated or poetic) American, someone from the United States of America ¹
8. Noun. (misspelling of Colombian) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Columbian
Literary usage of Columbian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Literature of American History: A Bibliographical Guide, in which the by Josephus Nelson Larned (1902)
"QB Pre-columbian Discovery Anderson, Rasmus Björn. America not ... Same; also
Bibliography of the pre-columbian discoveries of America, by PB Watson. ..."
2. Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States: Published During Its by Paul Leicester Ford (1888)
"EG has come out as a columbian Patriot—a pitiful performance. ... We have received
yours by a columbian Patriot—a well composed piece but in a style too ..."
3. A Documentary History of American Industrial Society by American Bureau of Industrial Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Eugene Allen Gilmore (1910)
"I have visited the columbian Association, seven miles above Zanesville, on the
Muskingum. The site of the Ohio Phalanx was beautiful, but it cannot be ..."
4. American Book Prices Current by Katherine Kyes Leab, Daniel J Leab (1907)
"columbian MAGAZINE.—Continued. number), Muhlenberg, A., Oct. 25, '06. (120) $12.50.
... columbian NAVAL MELODY: a Collection of Songs and Odes. Bost., 1813. ..."
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