How to pronounce“columbus”in English
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Definitions of “columbus”
A person who makes a great discovery.
“It is colossal. You are a Columbus of science who has discovered a lost world.”
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!"”
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.”
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