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Columbia
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English
Etymology
en :af Columbus -ia<id:place>
From en Columbus -ia place, the Latinized name of the European explorer, Christopher Columbus. en Colombia.
Pronunciation
en /kəˈlʌm.bi.ə/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Columbia.wav Southern England
en ʌmbiə 4
en Colombia
Proper noun
en poetic America; the United States; an appellation given in honor of Christopher Columbus.
en dated A female personification of the United States.
en river p/British Columbia c/Canada and en in <<s/Washington>> and <<s/Oregon>>, <<c/USA>>, flowing from the Canadian Rockies to the Pacific Ocean. en Rivers in Oregon, USA Rivers in Washington, USA Rivers in the United States
District of Columbia. The federal capital region of the United States of America, including Washington, D.C.
Several places in the United States.
en Q38453 en The <<capital city>> of <<s/South Carolina>>, and the <<county seat>> of <<co/Richland County>>.
en Cola Town Cola Soda City
en town co/Houston County s/Alabama.
en neighborhood city/San Diego s/California.
en CDP co/Tuolumne County s/California.
en town co/Tolland County s/Connecticut. TopoZone: Columbia, Connecticut
en city co/Monroe County s/Illinois.
en unincorporated community co/Fayette County s/Indiana.
en unincorporated community co/Marion County s/Iowa.
en city/county seat co/Adair County s/Kentucky.
en town/parish seat par/Caldwell Parish s/Louisiana.
en town co/Washington County s/Maine.
en CDP and planned community in co/Howard County s/Maryland. TopoZone: Columbia, Maryland
en city/county seat co/Marion County s/Mississippi, named for the city in South Carolina.
en city/county seat co/Boone County s/Missouri.
en town co/Coos County s/New Hampshire.
en ucomm/and/CDP twp:Suf/Knowlton co/Warren County s/New Jersey. TopoZone: Columbia, New Jersey
en town co/Herkimer County s/New York.
en town/county seat co/Tyrrell County s/North Carolina.
en unincorporated community co/Tuscarawas County s/Ohio.
en unincorporated community co/Williams County s/Ohio.
en borough co/Lancaster County s/Pennsylvania.
en city co/Brown County s/South Dakota.
en city/county seat co/Maury County s/Tennessee.
en unincorporated community co/Fluvanna County s/Virginia.
en unincorporated community co/Fayette County s/West Virginia.
en unincorporated community co/Clark County s/Wisconsin.
en A number of <<townships>>, listed under Columbia Township.
Columbia University. en Universities
10 April 2021 John Leland This heroin-using professor wants to change how we think about drugs https://web.archive.org/web/20220528195327/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/10/nyregion/Carl-Hart-drugs.html Dr. Carl Hart, 54, the first tenured African-American science professor at Columbia, is a gadfly among drug researchers and a rock star among advocates for decriminalizing drugs.
Columbia Pictures, a major American film production corporation
Space Shuttle Columbia Space Shuttle Columbia, named after the Columbia Rediviva ship.
en geology A supercontinent thought to have existed in the Paleoproterozoic.
en Hudsonland Nuna
en rural locality in northeast s/Queensland c/Australia.
en Colombia.
Derived terms
en Columbia Chinook Columbia River British Columbia CBS Columbia City Columbia County Columbia-Shuswap District of Columbia Columbiad Columbian
Related terms
en Colomba Colombia Colombus Columbine Columbus
Translations
poetic: America
Arabic: ar كُولُومْبِيَا f kulumbiyā
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 哥倫比亞 Gēlúnbǐyà
Dutch: nl Columbia
Finnish: fi Kolumbia
Hindi: hi कोलम्बिया
Italian: it America, it Columbia
Japanese: ja コロンビア Koronbia
Korean: ko ^콜럼비아
Russian: ru Колу́мбия f
female personification of the USA
Arabic: ar كُولُومْبِيَا f kulumbiyā
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 哥倫比亞 Gēlúnbǐyà
Dutch: nl Columbia, nl Colombia, nl Colombië
Finnish: fi Kolumbia
Hindi: hi कोलम्बिया
Japanese: ja コロンビア Koronbia
Russian: ru Колу́мбия f
Swedish: sv Columbia c
Noun
Columbia sheep
A breed of sheep developed in the United States.
References
en eponyms
en Personifications Washington, D.C.
Catalan
Proper noun
f
ca capital city s/South Carolina c/USA Columbia
Latin
la:
Etymology
la :clq es:Colombia :af Columbus<ety:from<columbus>> -ia 1
la es Colombia, from la Columbus -ia
Pronunciation
0
Proper noun
Columbia<1>
la New Latin la Colombia Q739 Rēspūblica Columbiae Bogota
Declension
Columbia<1>
Derived terms
la columbiānus columbicus columbiēnsis
See also
Romanian
ro:
Etymology
ro ro Cristofor Columb Columb -ia. The country sense is a ro es Colombia 1.
Pronunciation
ro LL-Q7913 (ron)-KlaudiuMihaila-Columbia.wav
Proper noun
f
ro Colombia Q739
en Columbia
Declension
Columbi sg
Derived terms
ro columbian
Spanish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f
en Columbia
Derived terms
es Columbia Británica columbiano