Meaning
3 sensesAn inhabitant of any place called Columbia.
(countable, dated, poetic, uncountable)An American, a person from the United States of America.
(countable, uncountable)A stamp from the Columbian Issue stamps.
(US, dated, uncountable)A size of type between English and great primer, standardized as 16-point.
Tertia
Examples
2 sentencesMexico City dates to pre-Columbian times.
The pre-Columbian aborigines of Porto Rico, Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba were Arawaks, to judge from the toponymy of these islands.
Translations
4 languagesOrigin
From Columbia + -n.From Columbia + -n.
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Forms
plural: Columbians| Singular | Columbian |
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Synonyms
1 synonymsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.