columbus
/kəˈlʌmbəs/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.04 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A male given name from Latin.
name
A surname.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "It is colossal. You are a Columbus of science who has discovered a lost world."
- ""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 […]"
- "No street car line passes it, so you'll have to do a little Columbusing on your own account-to find it-—but it's worth discovering, and President Gardner's phophecy sounds conservative."
Etymology
From Latin columbus (“a dove”). Doublet of Colombo. The common noun and verb are references to the Italian explorer.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: columbus
Usage
- Dated
- Slang
- American usage
- Derogatory
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People.