Columbia

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈlʌm.bi.ə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʌmbiə
• 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 United States.
3. A river in British Columbia, Canada and in Washington and Oregon, United States, flowing from the Canadian Rockies to the Pacific Ocean.
4. District of Columbia. The federal capital region of the United States of America, including Washington, D.C.
5. Several places in the United States.
   2. The capital city of South Carolina, and the county seat of Richland County.

      Synonyms: Cola Town, Cola, Soda City

   3. A town in Houston County, Alabama.
   4. A neighborhood of San Diego, California.
   5. A census-designated place in Tuolumne County, California.
   6. A town in Tolland County, Connecticut.
   7. A city in Monroe County, Illinois.
   8. An unincorporated community in Fayette County, Indiana.
   9. An unincorporated community in Marion County, Iowa.
   10. A city, the county seat of Adair County, Kentucky.
   11. A town, the parish seat of Caldwell Parish, Louisiana.
   12. A town in Washington County, Maine.
   13. A census-designated place and planned community in Howard County, Maryland.
   14. A city, the county seat of Marion County, Mississippi, named for the city in South Carolina.
   15. A city, the county seat of Boone County, Missouri.
   16. A town in Coos County, New Hampshire.
   17. A census-designated place in Warren County, New Jersey.
   18. A town in Herkimer County, New York.
   19. A town, the county seat of Tyrrell County, North Carolina.
   20. An unincorporated community in Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
   21. An unincorporated community in Williams County, Ohio.
   22. A borough of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
   23. A city in Brown County, South Dakota.
   24. A city, the county seat of Maury County, Tennessee.
   25. An unincorporated community in Fluvanna County, Virginia.
   26. An unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia.
   27. An unincorporated community in Clark County, Wisconsin.
   28. A number of townships, listed under Columbia Township.
6. Columbia University.
   • 2021 April 10, John Leland, “This heroin-using professor wants to change how we think about drugs”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 May 2022:

     Dr. [Carl] Hart, 54, the first tenured African-American science professor at Columbia, is a gadfly among drug researchers and a rock star among advocates for decriminalizing drugs.

7. Columbia Pictures, a major American film production corporation
8. Space Shuttle Columbia, named after the Columbia Rediviva ship.
9. (geology) A supercontinent thought to have existed in the Paleoproterozoic.

   Synonyms: Hudsonland, Nuna

10. A rural locality in northeast Queensland, Australia.
11. Obsolete form of Colombia.

Derived terms

• British Columbia
• CBS
• Columbia Chinook
• Columbia City
• Columbia County
• Columbia River
• Columbia-Shuswap
• District of Columbia

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)
• Swedish: Columbia (sv) c

Catalan

Proper noun

Columbia f

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

Latin

Proper noun

Columbia f sg (genitive Columbiae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Colombia (a country in South America)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Columbia
genitive	Columbiae
dative	Columbiae
accusative	Columbiam
ablative	Columbiā
vocative	Columbia

Derived terms

• columbiānus
• columbicus
• columbiēnsis

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈlumbja/ [koˈlũm.bja]
• Rhymes: -umbja
• Syllabification: Co‧lum‧bia

Proper noun

Columbia f

1. Columbia

Derived terms

• Columbia Británica
• columbiano