Columbian

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Columbian

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From Columbia + -n.

adjective

  1. not comparable Of or pertaining to Christopher Columbus, an explorer who introduced greatly widened contacts between Eurasia and the Americas, or his life or time. Columbian contact [the events, from 1492 to 1504, that ended the precolumbian era]
  2. dated, not comparable, poetic American, from the United States of America.
  3. misspelling, not comparable Misspelling of Colombian

noun Columbians

  1. countable, dated, poetic, uncountable An American, a person from the United States of America.
  2. countable, misspelling, uncountable Misspelling of Colombian
  3. countable, uncountable A stamp from the Columbian Issue stamps.
  4. US, dated, uncountable A size of type between English and great primer, standardized as 16-point.

    Similar: two-line brevier

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: columbia, colombian, colombia, colombiano, american, us-american, u.s.a., usa, u.s., us, usian, yankee, usonian, united-statesian, gringo, star-spangled

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noun 16-point type

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MLA

"Columbian." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/columbian. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

Columbian. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/columbian

Chicago

"Columbian." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/columbian.

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@misc{columbian_2026,
  title = {Columbian},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/columbian},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}