Search: Dictionary All Posts
Store Your Knowledge at the Brain Bank!
columbia Definition
Cancel
columbia
noun(Co-lum-bia)the United States
columbia
geographical name(Co-lum-bia)river 1214 miles (1953 kilometers) long in southwestern Canada and the northwestern part of the U.S. rising in southeastern British Columbia and flowing south and west into the Pacific
columbia
geographical name(Co-lum-bia)planned city in central Maryland between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. population 99,615
columbia
geographical name(Co-lum-bia)city north of Jefferson City in central Missouri population 108,500
columbia
geographical name(Co-lum-bia)cape on Ellesmere Island, northern Canada, jutting into a sea that is part of the Arctic Ocean; northernmost point of Canada, at 83°07' north latitude
columbia
geographical name(Co-lum-bia)plateau in eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, and southwestern Idaho in the Columbia River basin
columbia
geographical name(Co-lum-bia)province of western Canada on the Pacific coast north of Washington, Idaho, and the northwestern part of Montana; capital Victoria area 356,181 square miles (922,509 square kilometers), population 4,113,487
columbia
geographical name(Co-lum-bia)federal district in the eastern U.S. between Maryland and Virginia and coextensive with the city of Washington area 69 square miles (179 square kilometers), population 601,723