Columbus

American  

[kuh-luhm-buhs] / kəˈlʌm bəs /

noun

1. Christopher Sp. Cristóbal ColónIt. Cristoforo Colombo, 1446?–1506, Italian navigator in Spanish service: traditionally considered the discoverer of America 1492.

2. a city in and the capital of Ohio, in the central part.

3. a city in W Georgia.

4. a city in central Indiana.

5. a city in E Mississippi.

6. a city in E Nebraska.

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Columbus ¹ British  

/ kəˈlʌmbəs /

noun

1. a city in central Ohio: the state capital. Pop: 728 432 (2003 est)

2. a city in W Georgia, on the Chattahoochee River. Pop: 185 702 (2003 est)

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Columbus ² British  

/ kəˈlʌmbəs /

noun

1. Christopher. Spanish name Cristóbal Colón, Italian name Cristoforo Colombo. 1451–1506, Italian navigator and explorer in the service of Spain, who discovered the New World (1492)

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Columbus Cultural  

1. Capital of Ohio.

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Example Sentences

“I always felt like that was a gap in our educational system,” said Scott Seavers, who 20 years ago asked if he could teach a personal-finance class at Columbus North High School in Indiana.

From The Wall Street Journal

And then Denver, then Wichita, and then Chicago and then Columbus and on and on.

From Literature

You could protest it, mock it, rage against it at dinner parties in Beverly Hills and the living rooms of suburban Columbus.

From The Wall Street Journal

The future is late in coming to this Columbus suburb.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Metropolitan Opera, for instance, commissioned “The Voyage” in 1992 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Columbus’ arrival in the Americas, but the epic opera is nowhere to be found in our semisesquicentennial year.

From Los Angeles Times