Columbus
Americannoun
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Christopher Sp. Cristóbal ColónIt. Cristoforo Colombo, 1446?–1506, Italian navigator in Spanish service: traditionally considered the discoverer of America 1492.
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a city in and the capital of Ohio, in the central part.
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a city in W Georgia.
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a city in central Indiana.
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a city in E Mississippi.
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a city in E Nebraska.
noun
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a city in central Ohio: the state capital. Pop: 728 432 (2003 est)
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a city in W Georgia, on the Chattahoochee River. Pop: 185 702 (2003 est)
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Example Sentences
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Mrs. Kedzie planned to bring the girls to the western Ohio cities of Cincinnati and Columbus.
From Literature
"Some say that the United States were discovered by a Welshman, Madoc, way, way before Columbus," he said.
From BBC
East of Columbus, Ohio, where New Albany has become another data-center hot spot, community development director Jennifer Chrysler last year gave so many presentations to out-of-town peers that it strained her small staff.
Historians sometimes date the inception of the modern world to 1492, the year of Columbus’s departure for the New World.
The United Press International and Associated Press teletypes clattered away in a corner of the Columbus Citizen-Journal’s newsroom where I worked as a reporter in the 1970s.
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