Usually means: Before Columbus's arrival in Americas.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word pre-Columbian:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. pre-Columbian: Merriam-Webster
  2. pre-Columbian: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pre-Columbian: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pre-Columbian, pre-Columbian: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pre-Columbian: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pre-Columbian, pre-columbian, pre-Columbian: Wordnik
  7. pre-columbian, pre-Columbian: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pre-Columbian: Wiktionary
  9. pre-Columbian: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pre-Columbian: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pre-Columbian: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. pre-columbian: Dictionary.com
  13. Pre-Columbian, Pre-columbian: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. pre-columbian: Rhymezone
  15. pre-columbian: FreeDictionary.org
  16. pre-columbian: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. pre-Columbian: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pre-Columbian: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Pre-Columbian: art glossary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  (historical) Before the voyages of Christopher Columbus of the 1490s which introduced greatly widened contacts between Eurasia and the Americas.
adjective:  Referring to the cultures of the Americas before the European influence, specifically to the era before the continent was visited by Christopher Columbus.

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