# Columbus
## English
### Etymology

From Latin columbus (“a dove”). Doublet of Colombo. The verb is a reference to the Italian explorer.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kəˈlʌmbəs/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### Proper noun

Columbus
* A male given name from Latin.
* A surname.
* Christopher Columbus (1451?–1506), Italian explorer of the Americas.
* Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:
** The capital city of Ohio, and the county seat of Franklin County.
** A city, the county seat of Muscogee County, Georgia, with which it is consolidated.
** A village in Adams County, Illinois.
** A city, the county seat of Bartholomew County, Indiana.
** A city, the county seat of Cherokee County, Kansas.
** A tiny home rule city in Hickman County, Kentucky.
** A small city in Anoka County, Minnesota, previously a township.
** A city, the county seat of Lowndes County, Mississippi.
** An unincorporated community and inactive township in Johnson County, Missouri.
** A town, the county seat of Stillwater County, Montana.
** A city, the county seat of Platte County, Nebraska.
** An unincorporated community in Burlington County, New Jersey.
** A village in Luna County, New Mexico.
** A town in Chenango County, New York.
** A town, the county seat of Polk County, North Carolina.
** A tiny city in Burke County, North Dakota.
** A small city, the county seat of Colorado County, Texas.
** A small city in Columbia County and Dodge County, Wisconsin.
** A town in Columbia County, Wisconsin.
** A number of townships, in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan (2), Nebraska and Pennsylvania, listed under Columbus Township.

#### Synonyms

* (capital city of Ohio): Col's

#### Derived terms

* Columbian
* Columbian Exchange
* columbium
* Columbus Channel
* Columbus County
* Knight of Columbus

### Noun

Columbus (plural Columbuses)
* A person who makes a great discovery.
** 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:"It is colossal. You are a Columbus of science who has discovered a lost world."

#### Translations
### Verb

Columbus (third-person singular simple present Columbuses, present participle Columbusing, simple past and past participle Columbused)
* (possibly dated, slang) To explore; to go around exploring, to go around as an explorer.
** 1893, American Boys Afloat: Or, Cruising in the Orient, page 150:"But, boy the powers of mud, I belayve you fellers mane to make an indepindint cruise in the Orient, and go Columbusing all over the ocean boy the way ye's talk!"
** 1908, Out West, volume 28, page 90:Callous as the old mummy was about anything and everything save his pet hobby, archaeology, he would sit up and take notice of such a vision ; and Peter felt that, having Columbused the discovery, he had the better right to it.
** 1908, Sunset, volume 20, page 271:To the west of the river lay the country in which I went Columbusing — the enchanted desert whose southern boundary was where the sky reached down and merged with the earth curve, and whose northern limit was the Harqua Hala range […]
** 1921, Forest Leaves, volume 15, page lxx:No street car line passes it, so you'll have to do a little Columbusing on your own account-to find it-—but it's worth discovering, and President Gardner's phophecy sounds conservative.
* (derogatory, slang, US) To appropriate; to lay claim to something, especially a discovery, which is perceived as belonging to someone else.
** 2014, Justin Simien, Dear White People, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 97:When his black friend tells him that many people knew about the bar before he did, his white friend retorts by saying that he “Columbused it”; i.e., discovered it for white people before a gaggle of hip white people flooded in.
** 2014 July 6, Brenda Salinas, “‘Columbusing’: The Art Of Discovering Something That Is Not New”, in NPR‎:Of course, there is no bouncer, but we can be careful not to Columbus other culture's traditions.
** 2015, Frederic Charles Schaffer, Elucidating Social Science Concepts, Routledge, →ISBN, page 54:He then lists other things that have been Columbused, such as twerking by Miley Cyrus and hummus by “health conscious whities.”

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌkoːˈlʏm.bʏs/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: Co‧lum‧bus

### Proper noun

Columbus
* a surname; Columbus, chiefly in reference to Christopher Columbus

#### Derived terms

* ei van Columbus