Meaning of Columbia | Babel Free

Definitions

1. America; the United States; an appellation given in honor of Christopher Columbus.
   poetic
2. A female personification of the United States.
   dated
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.
6. The capital city of South Carolina, and the county seat of Richland County.
7. A town in Houston County, Alabama.
8. A neighborhood of San Diego, California.
9. A census-designated place in Tuolumne County, California.
10. A town in Tolland County, Connecticut.
11. A city in Monroe County, Illinois.
12. An unincorporated community in Fayette County, Indiana.
13. An unincorporated community in Marion County, Iowa.
14. A city, the county seat of Adair County, Kentucky.
15. A town, the parish seat of Caldwell Parish, Louisiana.
16. A town in Washington County, Maine.
17. A census-designated place and planned community in Howard County, Maryland.
18. A city, the county seat of Marion County, Mississippi, named for the city in South Carolina.
19. A city, the county seat of Boone County, Missouri.
20. A town in Coos County, New Hampshire.
21. A census-designated place in Warren County, New Jersey.
22. A town in Herkimer County, New York.
23. A town, the county seat of Tyrrell County, North Carolina.
24. An unincorporated community in Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
25. An unincorporated community in Williams County, Ohio.
26. A borough of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
27. A city in Brown County, South Dakota.
28. A city, the county seat of Maury County, Tennessee.
29. An unincorporated community in Fluvanna County, Virginia.
30. An unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia.
31. An unincorporated community in Clark County, Wisconsin.
32. A number of townships, listed under Columbia Township.
33. Columbia University.
34. Columbia Pictures, a major American film production corporation
35. Space Shuttle Columbia, named after the Columbia Rediviva ship.
36. A supercontinent thought to have existed in the Paleoproterozoic.
37. A rural locality in northeast Queensland, Australia.

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Examples

“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.”

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