Columbus
名词 n.
动词 v.
专有名词
英文释义
名词 n.
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A person who makes a great discovery.
— It is colossal. You are a Columbus of science who has discovered a lost world.
动词 v.
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To explore; to go around exploring, to go around as an explorer.
— "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!"
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To appropriate; to lay claim to something, especially a discovery, which is perceived as belonging to someone else.
— 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.
专有名词
- A male given name from Latin.
- plural of Columbu
- A surname.
- A surname.; Christopher Columbus (1451–1506), Italian explorer of the Americas.
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Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:; The capital city of Ohio, and the county seat of Franklin County.
— And exactly a month to the date after kissing the world with her sixth studio album, Short n' Sweet (it's like she planned it or smth...), she's [Sabrina Carpenter] kicking off her Short n' Sweet Tour in Columbus, Ohio on September 23.
- Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:; A city, the county seat of Muscogee County, Georgia, with which it is consolidated.
- Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:; A village in Adams County, Illinois.
- Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:; A city, the county seat of Bartholomew County, Indiana.
- Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:; A city, the county seat of Cherokee County, Kansas.
- Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:; A tiny home rule city in Hickman County, Kentucky.
- Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:; A small city in Anoka County, Minnesota, previously a township.
- Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:; A city, the county seat of Lowndes County, Mississippi.
- Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:; An unincorporated community and inactive township in Johnson County, Missouri.
- Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:; A town, the county seat of Stillwater County, Montana.
- Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:; A city, the county seat of Platte County, Nebraska.
- Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Burlington County, New Jersey.
- Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:; A village in Luna County, New Mexico.
- Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:; A town in Chenango County, New York.
- Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:; A town, the county seat of Polk County, North Carolina.
- Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:; A tiny city in Burke County, North Dakota.
- Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:; A small city, the county seat of Colorado County, Texas.
- Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:; A small city in Columbia County and Dodge County, Wisconsin.
- Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:; A town in Columbia County, Wisconsin.
- Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:; A number of townships, in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan (2), Nebraska and Pennsylvania, listed under Columbus Township.
词源
词源 1
From Latin columbus (“a dove”). Doublet of Colombo. The common noun and verb are references to the Italian explorer.
词源 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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