Columbian
Of or pertaining to Christopher Columbus, an explorer who introduced greatly widened…Of or pertaining to Christopher Columbus, an explorer who introduced greatly widened contacts between Eurasia and the Americas, or his life or time.
Meaning
2 senses(not comparable)Of or pertaining to Christopher Columbus, an explorer who introduced greatly widened contacts between Eurasia and the Americas, or his life or time.
Columbian contact [the events, from 1492 to 1504, that ended the precolumbian era]
Of or from any of the places called Columbia.
(dated, not comparable, poetic)American, from the United States of America.
- of or relating to Christopher Columbus
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.
Origin
From Columbia + -n.From Columbia + -n.
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