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Columbus   /kəlˈəmbəs/   Listen
Columbus

noun
1.
The state capital of Ohio; located in the center of the state; site of Ohio State University.  Synonym: capital of Ohio.
2.
Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506).  Synonyms: Christopher Columbus, Cristobal Colon, Cristoforo Colombo.
3.
A town in eastern Mississippi near the border with Alabama.
4.
A city in western Georgia on the Chattahoochee River; industrial center.



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"Columbus" Quotes from Famous Books



... lie still when she heard the roll of another chair-bed coming down the hall, its passage enlivened with cries of "Starboard! Port! Easy now! Pull away!" from Ralph and Frank, as they steered the recumbent Columbus on his ...
— Jack and Jill • Louisa May Alcott
... replied, "'while there is life, there is hope' and it's a sure thing that nobody ever accomplished anything worth while by accepting the failures of others as proof that the thing couldn't be done. Whitney would never have invented the cotton gin if he had accepted the failures of others as final. Columbus picked out a road to America and assured the skeptics that there was no danger of his sailing 'over the edge.' Of course, it had never been done before, but then Columbus went ahead and did it himself. He didn't take somebody else's failure as an indication of what he could do. If he had, ...
— Stammering, Its Cause and Cure • Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue
... solemnly, "is the newest thing in the world and the oldest. Each lover is a Columbus ...
— Mistress Anne • Temple Bailey
... we see one of these creatures and study his aged, aged look, as he slowly and deliberately munches the cabbage which composes his food, we can well believe that such a being saw the light of day before Columbus made his ...
— The Log of the Sun - A Chronicle of Nature's Year • William Beebe
... now awoke. By 1492 Columbus had crossed the Atlantic, and Vasco da Gama, having rounded the African continent, had reached India by an ocean road which had nothing to fear from ...
— A History of the English Church in New Zealand • Henry Thomas Purchas


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