1. Columbus - Noun
2. Columbus - Verb
3. Columbus - Proper noun
the state capital of Ohio; located in the center of the state; site of Ohio State University
Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)
a city in western Georgia on the Chattahoochee River; industrial center
a town in eastern Mississippi near the border with Alabama
Source: WordNetThe American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans. Stephen Hawking
Raphael paints wisdom Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the Indians. Bertrand Russell
Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America. Louise Erdrich
It is an egg of Columbus. Hungarian Proverb