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columbus | cincinnati |

As a noun columbus

is a male dove or cock-pigeon.

As an adjective cincinnati is

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columbus

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • .
  • (surname)
  • (1451?-1506), Italian explorer of the Americas.
  • One of various cities, towns and villages in the USA, among others the capital of Ohio.
  • Derived terms

    * Columbian * Columbian Exchange

    Verb

    (es)
  • 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.

    cincinnati

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The third-largest city in the state of Ohio.
  • Synonyms

    * (informal) Cincy * (informal) Cinti