The Collaborative International Dictionary
Columbian \Co*lum"bi*an\, a. [From Columbia.] Of or pertaining to the United States, or to America.
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Columbian is the adjective form of Columbia.
Columbian may refer to:
- Columbian High School (Tiffin, Ohio)
- Columbian Sharp-tailed Grouse
- Anything pertaining to the Knights of Columbus, (i.e. Columbian values)
- The Columbian, the U.S. daily newspaper published in Vancouver, Washington
- The Columbian Orator, a collection of political essays, poems, and dialogues
- The Columbian Theatre, a music hall in northeastern Kansas
- Columbian (typography), a name for 16-point type
Historically, Columbian also can refer to:
- American (word), or an early alternative name for inhabitants of the United States
- Columbian (B&O train), a passenger train operated by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad until 1971
- Columbian (MILW train), a passenger train which operated from 1911 to 1955
- Sternwheeler Columbian disaster, a sternwheeler lost in the worst accident in the Yukon River's history in 1906
- Columbian Issue, a set of U.S. postage stamps marking the 1893 World Columbian Exposition
- World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago, Illinois, in 1893
The Columbian was a named passenger train operated by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad ("the Milwaukee Road") between Chicago, Illinois, and Seattle/ Tacoma, Washington. The westbound train was Milwaukee Road train #17, and the eastbound train was train #18.
Usage examples of "columbian".
She figured if she came to the surface now, one of those Columbian bastards would surely be waiting to finish her off.
With difficulty, Angela pulled her eyes from their ritual of staring hatefully at the back of the Columbian leader to turn and look at Charlotte.
She knew she had no choice, the Columbian leader had made that quite clear.
The Columbian leader glared at Angela several times during the long journey, and she had tried to look properly scared and willing to cooperate.
The sun was setting on the lush Columbian landscape as the two women were unceremoniously hauled from the speedboat like bags of potatoes, then roughly shoved along a dock, up some stairs and into a house styled after a Spanish villa.
Rafe ran up the beach toward the villa, grabbing an M-16 from a fallen Columbian guard as he passed his broken body.
He waited for the Columbian to move, actually wanted him to so that he could kill him again.
The pirate armada watched as the Columbian coast lit up, explosions sending fiery debris high into the pre-dawn sky.
Atkins, as the first settler on Columbian Heights, and as the organizer and both Secretary and agent of the Board of Trustees, pushed the work of The Slater Industrial School, encouraged and supported by the industrious efforts of the members of the Board, until in 1895 he was called to the Presidency of the Institution.
Chicago, and hopes to have the pleasure of showing Mary the Columbian Exhibition.
This is the other half of the vast process historians now call the Columbian exchange.
The Columbian Minister, too, who was charged with the protest of the Corps Diplomatique to Bismarck on account of his refusal to allow their despatches to go out, has also returned, to re-peruse Grotius and Puffendorf, in order to find more precedents with which to overwhelm Bismarck.
Sumatran, Brazilian, Columbian, Nicaraguan, Costa Rican, Ecuadorean, Madagascar, Jamaican .
The British Columbian Railway has been constructed from Fort Moody to Kamloops, and is now part of the Canadian Pacific.
New York Evening Post, the Washington Federalist, the Gazette of the United States, and in Boston in the Gazette and the Columbian Centinel, papers read by the Adamses.