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Columbia
[ kuh-luhm-bee-uh ]
noun
- a river in southwestern Canada and the northwestern United States, flowing south and west from southeastern British Columbia through Washington along the boundary between Washington and Oregon and into the Pacific. 1,214 miles (1,955 km) long.
- Cape Columbia, a cape on the northern coast of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada, in the Arctic Ocean: northernmost point of Canada.
- a city in and the capital of South Carolina, in the central part.
- a city in central Missouri.
- a city in central Maryland.
- a city in central Tennessee.
- a city in southeastern Pennsylvania.
- Literary. the United States of America.
- one of an American breed of large sheep, developed by crossbreeding the Lincoln and Rambouillet, noted for its good market lambs and heavy fleece of medium length.
- Aerospace. the first space shuttle to orbit and return to earth.
Columbia
1/ °ìəˈ±ôÊŒ³¾²úɪə /
noun
- a river in NW North America, rising in the Rocky Mountains and flowing through British Columbia, then west to the Pacific. Length: about 1930 km (1200 miles)
- a city in central South Carolina, on the Congaree River: the state capital. Pop: 117Â 357 (2003 est)
Columbia
2/ °ìəˈ±ôÊŒ³¾²úɪə /
noun
- the first test vehicle of the NASA space shuttle fleet to prove the possibility of routine access to space for scientific and commercial ventures
Example Sentences
Bell is a research professor at Columbia University who has led 10 expeditions to Antarctica and Greenland in part to study deep subglacial lakes.
Columbia University, through a thoroughly pusillanimous capitulation to a multimillion-dollar threat from the Trump administration, has put that conviction in the grave.
On April 1, 2025, 25 states and the District of Columbia filed a federal lawsuit against HHS and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the U.S.
She added that she hopes to re-enroll at Columbia University, which was the epicentre of student protests last year, and finish her PhD programme.
Many people share news articles without reading a single word of them, according to a Columbia University study.
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