Word Meanings - COLUMBIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to the United States, or to America.
Related words: (words related to COLUMBIAN)
- STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - UNITERABLE
Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne. - AMERICANIZATION
The process of Americanizing. - UNITIVE
Having the power of uniting; causing, or tending to produce, union. Jer. Taylor. - UNITARIANISM
The doctrines of Unitarians. - AMERICAN
1. Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians. 2. Of or pertaining to the United States. "A young officer of the American navy." Lyell. American ivy. See Virginia creeper. -- American Party , a party, about 1854, - AMERICANISM
1. Attachment to the United States. 2. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. 3. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States. - UNITARIANIZE
To change or turn to Unitarian views. - AMERICAN PLAN
In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan. - STATESWOMAN
A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson. - UNIT
The least whole number; one. Units are the integral parts of any large number. I. Watts. 3. A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of twenty shillings. Camden. 4. Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat, - STATESMANLY
Becoming a statesman. - STATESMAN
1. A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities. The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light - UNITABLE
Capable of union by growth or otherwise. Owen. - UNITIVELY
In a unitive manner. Cudworth. - UNITARIAN
Of or pertaining to Unitarians, or their doctrines. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - UNITY
Any definite quantity, or aggregate of quantities or magnitudes taken as one, or for which 1 is made to stand in calculation; thus, in a table of natural sines, the radius of the circle is regarded as unity. Note: The number 1, when it - AMERICANIZE
To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics. - UNITEDLY
In an united manner. Dryden. - TRIBUNICIAN; TRIBUNITIAL; TRIBUNITIAN
Of or pertaining to tribunes; befitting a tribune; as, tribunitial power or authority. Dryden. A kind of tribunician veto, forbidding that which is recognized to be wrong. Hare. - JEJUNITY
The quality of being jejune; jejuneness. - TRIUNITY
The quality or state of being triune; trinity. Dr. H. More. - MUNITION
fortification, fr. munire to fortify, defend with a wall; cf. moenia walls, murus a wall, and Skr. mi to fix, make firm. Cf. 1. Fortification; stronghold. His place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks. Is. xxxiii. 16. 2. Whatever materials - PUNITION
Punishment. Mir. for Mag. - ALUNITE
Alum stone. - TRINIUNITY
Triunity; trinity. As for terms of trinity, triniunity, . . . and the like, they reject them as scholastic notions. Milton. - REUNITEDLY
In a reunited manner.