Noun: Columbus
| Singular | Columbus |
| Plural | Columbuses |
Sample Sentences
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It is colossal. You are a Columbus of science who has discovered a lost world. [1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘It’s Just the very Biggest Thing in the World’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 58:]
Nouns inflected like Columbus
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin columbus (“a dove”). Doublet of Colombo. The common noun and verb are references to the Italian explorer. See: Latin Nouns '
columbus'.