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Colom — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • Columbus name Christopher Columbus, the Italian explorer whose 1492 voyage across the Atlantic opened up European contact with the Americas.
  • Dove noun A bird, typically white or grey, closely related to the pigeon and often used as a symbol of peace.
  • pigeon noun A plump grey bird common in cities, known for its cooing call.

Senses

Colom is used for these senses in English:

  • Columbus A person who makes a great discovery.
  • dove (countable) A pigeon, especially one smaller in size and white-colored; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.
  • pigeon (countable) One of several birds of the family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes.

Columbus — full definition

  1. name Christopher Columbus, the Italian explorer whose 1492 voyage across the Atlantic opened up European contact with the Americas.
  2. name The capital city of the U.S. state of Ohio.
  3. noun Informally, a person credited with a bold new discovery.

Dove — full definition

  1. noun A bird, typically white or grey, closely related to the pigeon and often used as a symbol of peace.
  2. noun A person who favours peaceful or diplomatic solutions over conflict, especially in politics.
  3. verb Past tense of "dive," used in American English.