Columbian

[kuh-luhm-bee-uhn]

adjective

Literary. pertaining to America or the United States.

pertaining to Christopher Columbus.

noun

Printing. a 16-point type of a size between English and great primer.

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Origin:
1750–60; Columbi(a) + -an or Columb(us) + -ian

Related forms

post-Co·lum·bi·an, adjective

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Columbian (kəˈlʌmbɪən)

—*adj*
1.	of or relating to the United States
2.	relating to Christopher Columbus

—n
3.	a size of printer's type, approximately equal to 16 point; two-line Brevier

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Columbian (gold) definition

n.
Light-colored Columbian marijuana. : He claimed he scored some Columbian.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Related Words

British Columbia English great primer

Kwakiutl midway peamouth

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"WHEREAS no provisions have, as yet, been made by the World's Columbian Exposition Commission for securing exhibits from the colored women of this country, or the giving of representation to them in such Fair, and WHEREAS under the present arrangement and classification of exhibits, it would be impossible for visitors to the Exposition to know and distinguish the exhibits and handiwork of the colored women from those of the Anglo- Saxons, and because of this the honor, fame and credit for all meritorious exhibits, though made by our race, would not duly be given us ... RESOLVED that for the purpose of demonstrating the progress of the colored women since emancipation and of showing to those who are yet doubters, and there are many, that the colored women ... are making rapid strides in art, science and manufacturing, and of furnishing to all information as to ... what the race has done, is doing and might do, in every department of life, that we, the colored women of Chicago request the Columbian Commission to establish an office for a colored woman whose duty it shall be to collect exhibits from the colored women of America ... [ellipses in source]"

-Colored Women Of Chicago