Columbia

[kuh-luhm-bee-uh]

noun

1. a river in southwestern Canada and the northwestern United States, flowing south and west from southeastern British Columbia through Washington along the boundary between Washington and Oregon and into the Pacific. 1,214 miles (1,955 km) long.

2. Cape Columbia, a cape on the northern coast of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada, in the Arctic Ocean: northernmost point of Canada.

3. a city in and the capital of South Carolina, in the central part.

4. a city in central Missouri.

5. a city in central Maryland.

6. a city in central Tennessee.

7. a city in southeastern Pennsylvania.

8. Literary.,  the United States of America.

9. one of an American breed of large sheep, developed by crossbreeding the Lincoln and Rambouillet, noted for its good market lambs and heavy fleece of medium length.

10. Aerospace.,  the first space shuttle to orbit and return to earth.

Columbia

¹

/ kəˈlʌmbɪə /

noun

1. a river in NW North America, rising in the Rocky Mountains and flowing through British Columbia, then west to the Pacific. Length: about 1930 km (1200 miles)

2. a city in central South Carolina, on the Congaree River: the state capital. Pop: 117 357 (2003 est)

Columbia

²

/ kəˈlʌmbɪə /

noun

1. the first test vehicle of the NASA space shuttle fleet to prove the possibility of routine access to space for scientific and commercial ventures

Example Sentences

The purported weapons used in some of the cases have only fueled skepticism: A District of Columbia man was charged for throwing a Subway sandwich.

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Overall membership in the union, which spans the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia, has doubled in seven years, to 14,700 members.

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Columbia University will pay $200 million to the federal government over three years.

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While Wilson hasn’t held an official role at Lululemon in over a decade, he lives near the company’s headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia—and stays in touch with employees.

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"A jail sentence doesn't matter anymore," David Patrick Columbia, the founder of New York Social Diary, told The Daily Beast in 2011, after Epstein's first conviction.

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