Columbusn.
/kəˈlʌmbəs/, U.S. /kəˈləmbəs/ Used allusively for an explorer or discoverer.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > [noun] > explorer or discoverer
finder1405
explorer1577
Columbus1593
pioneera1817
explorator1836
pathfinder1840
path-cleaver1896
trail-blazer1908
trail-hound1931
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 11 A new-found land of confuting commodities discouered, by this braue Columbus of tearmes.
1656 A. Cowley Pindaric Odes 27 Thou great Columbus of the Golden Lands of new Philosophies.
1680 Oldham in Rochester's Poems 125 'Tis I, the bold Columbus, only I, Who must new Worlds, in Vice descry.
1826 E. B. Barrett Ess. on Mind ii. 64 What tongue can syllable our Bacon's name..Sublime Columbus of the realms of Mind!
1882 W. D. Hay Brighter Britain! I. i. 11 A veritable cargo of Columbuses.
1927 Melody Maker Sept. 938/1 We might hope for some musical Columbus to appear on the scenes.
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Columbus Day n. the twelfth of October as a celebration and public holiday, held in the U.S. and in some other parts of North and South America in commemoration of Columbus's first landing in the Americas on 12 October 1492.In 1892, the anniversary was reckoned according to the Old Style calendar, and celebrated on the twenty-first of October; in subsequent practice, it came to be observed on the second Monday in October.
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society > leisure > [noun] > a period of > specific
Day of the Dead1834
Columbus Day1892
Australia Day1911
the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun] > anniversary of specific things
Gunpowder day1613
regnal day1877
Columbus Day1892
diamond jubilee1897
Victoria Day1901
Gallipoli Day1915
Sadie Hawkins1938
1890 Cent. Mag. Jan. 479/1 (heading) Columbus's Day.]
1892 Philadelphia Inquirer 22 Oct. 5/4 Reading celebrated Columbus Day with a magnificent demonstration of its civic societies, schools, industries..and military.
1906 Hearing before Comm. on Judiciary of U.S. House in relation to Columbus Day (H.R. Doc. 830, 59th U.S. Congr. 2 Sess.) 3 I shall..present my views in favor of my bill..to make the 12th day of October a legal holiday, to be called ‘Columbus Day’.
1978 Amer. Poetry Rev. Nov. 21/3 A fifth child of buona creanza, born in Genoa on Columbus Day (believe it or not), who had lived almost alone with books and family before he was thirty.
1995 San Francisco Examiner (Electronic ed.) 13 Oct. The protest concided with Indigenous Peoples Day, celebrated on October 12, the traditional Columbus Day, to protest 503 years of ‘genocide and racism’, as one speaker put it.
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