Columbus vs Cincinnati - What's the difference?
columbus | cincinnati |
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(surname)
(1451?-1506), Italian explorer of the Americas.
One of various cities, towns and villages in the USA, among others the capital of Ohio.
To explore; to go around exploring, to go around as an explorer.
* 1893 , American Boys Afloat: Or, Cruising in the Orient , page 150:
* 1908 , Out West , volume 28, page 90:
* 1908 , Sunset , volume 20, page 271:
* 1921 , Forest Leaves , volume 15, page lxx:
As a noun columbus
is a male dove or cock-pigeon.As an adjective cincinnati is
.columbus
English
(wikipedia Columbus)Proper noun
(en proper noun)Derived terms
* Columbian * Columbian ExchangeVerb
(es)- "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!"
- 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.
- 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
- 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.