Columbus

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A male given name from Latin.

2. 2

   A surname.

3. 3

   Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States

   Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:

   • 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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   1. 4

      A person who makes a great discovery.

      • It is colossal. You are a Columbus of science who has discovered a lost world.
   2. 5

      To explore

      To 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 […]
   3. 6

      To appropriate

      To 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.
      • He then lists other things that have been Columbused, such as twerking by Miley Cyrus and hummus by “health conscious whities.”
   4. 7

      plural of Columbu

The neighborhood