colombia
colombia Lexical Profile
• noun
A country located in northwestern South America, bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela and Brazil to the east, Peru and Ecuador to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
"During her university exchange program, she spent a semester studying tropical ecology in Colombia."
Word Nuance & Usage
Often misspelled by English speakers as 'Columbia', which refers instead to the North American river, the Ivy League university, or the historical poetic name for the United States.
• Rhymes for colombia
Word Origin & Etymology
Derived from the name of the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus (Cristóbal Colón in Spanish). The name was originally conceived by the Venezuelan revolutionary Francisco de Miranda to refer to all of the New World, and was later adopted in 1819 by the Republic of Gran Colombia.