Usually means: Explorer, discovered Americas, controversial legacy.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word Columbus:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. Columbus: Merriam-Webster
  2. Columbus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Columbus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Columbus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Columbus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Columbus, Columbus, columbus: Wordnik
  7. Columbus: Wiktionary
  8. Columbus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Columbus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Columbus: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Columbus: Dictionary.com
  12. Columbus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. COLUMBUS, Columbus (Amtrak station), Columbus (Bartholdi), Columbus (ISS module), Columbus (OH), Columbus (Rome), Columbus (Star Trek), Columbus (company), Columbus (crater), Columbus (disambiguation), Columbus (film), Columbus (novel), Columbus (spacecraft), Columbus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Columbus: Rhymezone
  15. Columbus: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  16. Columbus: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. columbus: FreeDictionary.org
  18. columbus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Columbus: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. columbus: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Columbus: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. columbus: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Columbus: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See columbusing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Columbus)

noun:  A male given name from Latin.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Christopher Columbus (1451?–1506), Italian explorer of the Americas.
noun:  Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:
noun:  The capital city of Ohio, and the county seat of Franklin County.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Muscogee County, Georgia, with which it is consolidated.
noun:  A village in Adams County, Illinois.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Bartholomew County, Indiana.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Cherokee County, Kansas.
noun:  A tiny home rule city in Hickman County, Kentucky.
noun:  A small city in Anoka County, Minnesota, previously a township.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Lowndes County, Mississippi.
noun:  An unincorporated community and inactive township in Johnson County, Missouri.
noun:  A town, the county seat of Stillwater County, Montana.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Platte County, Nebraska.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Burlington County, New Jersey.
noun:  A village in Luna County, New Mexico.
noun:  A town in Chenango County, New York.
noun:  A town, the county seat of Polk County, North Carolina.
noun:  A tiny city in Burke County, North Dakota.
noun:  A small city, the county seat of Colorado County, Texas.
noun:  A small city in Columbia County and Dodge County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A town in Columbia County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A number of townships, in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan (2), Nebraska and Pennsylvania, listed under Columbus Township.
noun:  A person who makes a great discovery.
verb:  (possibly dated, slang) To explore; to go around exploring, to go around as an explorer.
verb:  (derogatory, slang, US) To appropriate; to lay claim to something, especially a discovery, which is perceived as belonging to someone else.

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