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# columbian

«columbian» in Mova's school dictionary: **To do with Christopher Columbus (as in pre-Columbian…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (Columbian); noun (a Columbian — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To do with Christopher Columbus (as in pre-Columbian, before Columbus reached the Americas). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/columbian/#m1)

2) To do with places called Columbia, such as British Columbia in Canada, the District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.) or the Columbia River. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/columbian/#m2)

3) Often a misspelling of Colombian, which means from Colombia, the country in South America. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/columbian/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons, pre-Columbian means the Americas before European contact (the Maya, Aztecs, Inca). In spelling lessons, children learn the trap: the country is Colombia, and its people and coffee are Colombian. Phrases: pre-Columbian art, British Columbian.

### examples

- The museum shows pre-Columbian gold from Peru. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/columbian/#x1)
- The Columbian Exposition was a world fair in Chicago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/columbian/#x2)
- People from British Columbia are sometimes called British Columbians. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/columbian/#x3)
- Colombian coffee is from Colombia, spelled with an o. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/columbian/#x4)
- Pre-Columbian peoples grew maize and potatoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/columbian/#x5)
- The Columbian salmon swim up the Columbia River. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/columbian/#x6)

### note

Big spelling trap: Colombia (country) has o-o; Columbia (US places, British Columbia, universities) has o-u. Columbian is not the right word for the people of Colombia.

### In the corpora

- [After Columbus crossed the Atlantic, plants and animals sailed both ways, and this swap is called the Columbian exchange.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/2/)
- [Historians call this the Columbian Exchange.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/5/)
- [After 1492 plants and animals crossed the Atlantic in both directions, which historians call the Columbian Exchange.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «columbian» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/columbian/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.