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Columbus

noun

The state capital of Ohio; located in the center of the state; site of Ohio State University. Synonym: capital of Ohio.

Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506). Synonyms: Christopher Columbus, Cristobal Colon, Cristoforo Colombo.

A town in eastern Mississippi near the border with Alabama.

A city in western Georgia on the Chattahoochee River; industrial center.

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"Columbus" Quotes from Famous Books

... a curve in the 'pike appeared that soul-stirring sight, the morning stage from Columbus. Zene and grandma Padgett drew off to the side of the road and gave it a wide passage, for the stage had the same right of way that any regular train now has on its own track. It was drawn by six of the proudest horses in the world, and the grand-looking driver who ...

— Old Caravan Days • Mary Hartwell Catherwood

... as you choose, but what you see there will not enable you to judge the African. The African does not fade away like a flower before the white man—not in the least. Look at the increase of the native in the Cape territory; look at what he has stood on the West Coast. Christopher Columbus visited him before he discovered the American Indians. Whaling captains, and seamen of all sorts and nationalities have dropped in on him "frequent and free." He has absorbed all sorts of doctrine from religious sects; cotton goods, patent medicines, foreign spirits, and—as the man ...

— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley

... When Columbus, on his second voyage to the New World, landed upon Cape Cabron, Cuba, the cacique of the adjacent country meeting him upon the shore offered him a string of beads made of the hard parts of shells as an assurance of welcome. Similar gifts were often ...

— Wampum - A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society - of Philadelphia • Ashbel Woodward

... all the Judges' cried "Bumpkin!" as pleased as the followers of Columbus when they ...

— The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit • Richard Harris

... purposes of said exposition, has been provided in accordance with the conditions and requirements of section 10 of an act entitled "An act to provide for celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus by holding an international exhibition of arts, industries, manufactures, and the products of the soil, mine, and sea, in the city of Chicago, in the State of Illinois," approved April ...

— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume IX. • Benjamin Harrison

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