Columbia

Columbia

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈlʌm.bi.ə/
• Homophone: Colombia

Proper noun

Columbia

1. (poetic) America; the United States; an appellation given in honor of Christopher Columbus.
2. (dated) A female personification of the USA.
3. A river in British Columbia, Canada and in Washington and Oregon, United States, flowing from the Canadian Rockies to the Pacific Ocean.
4. Several places in the United States.
   1. The capital city of South Carolina, and the county seat of Richland County.

      Synonyms: Cola Town, Cola

   2. A town in Houston County, Alabama.
   3. A neighborhood of San Diego, California.
   4. A census-designated place in Tuolumne County, California.
   5. A town in Tolland County, Connecticut.
   6. A city in Monroe County, Illinois.
   7. An unincorporatedcommunity in Fayette County, Indiana.
   8. An unincorporatedcommunity in Marion County, Iowa.
   9. A city, the county seat of Adair County, Kentucky.
   10. A town, the parish seat of Caldwell Parish, Louisiana.
   11. A town in Washington County, Maine.
   12. A census-designated place and planned community in Howard County, Maryland.
   13. A city, the county seat of Marion County, Mississippi, named for the city in South Carolina.
   14. A city, the county seat of Boone County, Missouri.
   15. A town in Coos County, New Hampshire.
   16. A census-designated place in Warren County, New Jersey.
   17. A town in Herkimer County, New York.
   18. A town, the county seat of Tyrrell County, North Carolina.
   19. An unincorporatedcommunity in Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
   20. An unincorporatedcommunity in Williams County, Ohio.
   21. A borough of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
   22. A city in Brown County, South Dakota.
   23. A city, the county seat of Maury County, Tennessee.
   24. An unincorporatedcommunity in Fluvanna County, Virginia.
   25. An unincorporatedcommunity in Fayette County, West Virginia.
   26. An unincorporatedcommunity in Clark County, Wisconsin.
5. Columbia University.
6. Space Shuttle Columbia, named after the Columbia Rediviva ship.
7. (geology) A supercontinent thought to have existed in the Paleoproterozoic.

   Synonyms: Hudsonland, Nuna

8. A rural locality in northeast Queensland, Australia.
9. Misspelling of Colombia.

Derived terms

• British Columbia
• CBS
• Columbia City
• Columbia County
• District of Columbia

 

Related terms

Related terms

• Colomba
• Colombia
• Colombus
• Columbine
• Columbus

Translations

poetic: America

Arabic: كُولُومْبِيَا‎ f (kulumbiyā) Chinese: Mandarin: 哥倫比亞／哥伦比亚 (zh) (Gēlúnbǐyà) Dutch: Columbia Finnish: Kolumbia (fi) Hindi: कोलम्बिया (hi) (kolambiyā) Italian: America (it), Columbia Japanese: コロンビア (ja) (Koronbia) Korean: 콜럼비아 (Kolleombia) Russian: Колу́мбия (ru) f (Kolúmbija)

female personification of the USA

Arabic: كُولُومْبِيَا‎ f (kulumbiyā) Chinese: Mandarin: 哥倫比亞／哥伦比亚 (zh) (Gēlúnbǐyà) Dutch: Columbia, Colombia (nl), Colombië Finnish: Kolumbia (fi) Hindi: कोलम्बिया (hi) (kolambiyā) Japanese: コロンビア (ja) (Koronbia) Russian: Колу́мбия (ru) f (Kolúmbija)

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Catalan

Proper noun

Columbia f

1. Columbia (the capital city of South Carolina, United States)

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Latin

Proper noun

Columbia f sg (genitive Columbiae); first declension

1. Colombia (a country in South America)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Columbia
Genitive	Columbiae
Dative	Columbiae
Accusative	Columbiam
Ablative	Columbiā
Vocative	Columbia

Derived terms

• columbiānus
• columbicus
• columbiēnsis

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Spanish

Proper noun

Columbia ?

1. Columbia

Derived terms

• Columbia Británica
• columbiano