# Columbia

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /kəˈlʌm.bi.ə/ · frequency rank #3,607

## Definitions
1. America; the United States; an appellation given in honor of Christopher Columbus.
2. A female personification of the United States.
3. A river in British Columbia, Canada and in Washington and Oregon, United States, flowing from the Canadian Rockies to the Pacific Ocean.
4. District of Columbia. The federal capital region of the United States of America, including Washington, D.C.
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32. Columbia University.
33. Columbia Pictures, a major American film production corporation
34. Space Shuttle Columbia, named after the Columbia Rediviva ship.
35. A supercontinent thought to have existed in the Paleoproterozoic.
36. A rural locality in northeast Queensland, Australia.
37. Obsolete form of Colombia.

## Etymology
From Columbus + -ia, the Latinized name of the European explorer, Christopher Columbus. Piecewise doublet of Colombia.

## Easily confused with
- **Columbus** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/columbia-vs-columbus)
- **Columbian** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/columbia-vs-columbian)
- **columbine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/columbia-vs-columbine)
- **Colombia** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/colombia-vs-columbia)
- **Colombian** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/colombian-vs-columbia)

## Common misspellings (11)
`ccolumbia`, `cloumbia`, `collumbia`, `colmubia`, `colubmia`, `columbai`, `columbbia`, `columiba`, `colummbia`, `coulmbia`, `oclumbia`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/columbia