Columbus

proper noun

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   A male given name from Latin.

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   A surname.

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   A surname. Christopher Columbus (1451–1506), Italian explorer of the Americas.

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   Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States: The capital city of Ohio, and the county seat of Franklin County.

   And exactly a month to the date after kissing the world with her sixth studio album, Short n' Sweet (it's like she planned it or smth...), she's [Sabrina Carpenter] kicking off her Short n' Sweet Tour in Columbus, Ohio on September 23.

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   Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States: A city, the county seat of Muscogee County, Georgia, with which it is consolidated.

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   Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States: A village in Adams County, Illinois.

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   Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States: A city, the county seat of Bartholomew County, Indiana.

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   Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States: A city, the county seat of Cherokee County, Kansas.

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   Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States: A tiny home rule city in Hickman County, Kentucky.

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    Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States: A small city in Anoka County, Minnesota, previously a township.

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    Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States: A city, the county seat of Lowndes County, Mississippi.

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    Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States: An unincorporated community and inactive township in Johnson County, Missouri.

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    Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States: A town, the county seat of Stillwater County, Montana.

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    Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States: A city, the county seat of Platte County, Nebraska.

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    Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States: An unincorporated community in Burlington County, New Jersey.

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    Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States: A village in Luna County, New Mexico.

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    Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States: A town in Chenango County, New York.

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    Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States: A town, the county seat of Polk County, North Carolina.

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    Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States: A tiny city in Burke County, North Dakota.

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    Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States: A small city, the county seat of Colorado County, Texas.

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    Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States: A small city in Columbia County and Dodge County, Wisconsin.

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    Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States: A town in Columbia County, Wisconsin.

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    Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States: A number of townships, in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan (2), Nebraska and Pennsylvania, listed under Columbus Township.

noun

1. 1

   A person who makes a great discovery.

   It is colossal. You are a Columbus of science who has discovered a lost world.

verb

1. 1

   datedTo explore; to go around exploring, to go around as an explorer.

   "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!"

   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.

   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 […]

   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.

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   slangTo appropriate; to lay claim to something, especially a discovery, which is perceived as belonging to someone else.

   When his black friend tells him that many people knew about the bar before he did, his white friend retorts by saying that he “Columbused it”; i.e., discovered it for white people before a gaggle of hip white people flooded in.

   If you've danced to an Afrobeat-heavy pop song, dipped hummus, sipped coconut water, participated in a Desi-inspired color run or sported a henna tattoo, then you've Columbused something. […] Sometimes, though, Columbusing can feel icky. […] Of course, there is no bouncer, but we can be careful not to Columbus other culture's traditions.

   He then lists other things that have been Columbused, such as twerking by Miley Cyrus and hummus by “health conscious whities.”

proper noun

1. 1

   Also a form of Columbuplural of Columbu

Forms

plural

Columbuses

past tense

Columbused

past participle

Columbused

present participle

Columbusing

third person singular

Columbuses