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Columbia

name
/kəˈlʌm.bi.ə/

Etymology

From Columbus + -ia, the Latinized name of the European explorer, Christopher Columbus. Piecewise doublet of Colombia.

  1. borrowed from columbus
  2. suffixed as columbia — “Columbus + -ia”

Definitions

  1. America

    America; the United States; an appellation given in honor of Christopher Columbus.

  2. A female personification of the United States.

  3. A river in British Columbia, Canada and in Washington and Oregon, United States, flowing…

    A river in British Columbia, Canada and in Washington and Oregon, United States, flowing from the Canadian Rockies to the Pacific Ocean.

  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. District of Columbia. The federal capital region of the United States of America,…

      District of Columbia. The federal capital region of the United States of America, including Washington, D.C.

    2. Several places in the United States.

    3. Columbia University.

      • 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.

    4. Columbia Pictures, a major American film production corporation

    5. Space Shuttle Columbia, named after the Columbia Rediviva ship.

    6. A supercontinent thought to have existed in the Paleoproterozoic.

    7. A rural locality in northeast Queensland, Australia.

    8. Obsolete form of Colombia.

The neighborhood

Derived

British Columbia, CBS, Columbia Chinook, Columbia City, Columbia County, Columbia River, Columbia-Shuswap, District of Columbia

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at Columbia. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at columbia. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at columbia

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA