Of or pertaining to Christopher Columbus, an explorer who introduced greatly widened contacts between Eurasia and the Americas, or his life or time. / Of or from any of the places called Columbia.

An inhabitant of any place called Columbia. / (dated or poetic) An American, a person from the United States of America. / A stamp from the Columbian Issue stamps.

plural of Columbian

Before Christopher Columbus's voyages of the 1490s introduced greatly widened contacts between Eurasia and the Americas.

plural of British Columbian

Of or pertaining to the Canadian province of British Columbia.

A native or inhabitant of British Columbia, Canada.

Referring to the cultures of the American continent after the European influence, specifically to the era after the continent was visited by Christopher Columbus.

(history) The widespread transfer of animals, plants, culture, human populations, communicable diseases, technology and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres in the 15th and 16th centuries, related to European colonization and trade after Christopher Columbus' 1492 voyage.

plural of Columbian mammoth