Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A country of northwest South America with coastlines on the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. Previously inhabited by the Chibchas, it was settled by the Spanish in 1530s and formed the nucleus of the viceroyalty of New Granada after 1739. The area gained its independence from Spain in 1820 under the leadership of Simón Bolívar, but the modern state of Colombia did not emerge until after Venezuela and Ecuador (1830) and later Panama (1903) had become separate nations. Bogotá is the capital and the largest city.
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- proper noun Country in
South America . Official name: Republic of Colombia.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a republic in northwestern South America with a coastline on the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea; achieved independence from Spain in 1821 under the leadership of Simon Bolivar; Spanish is the official language
Etymologies
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Examples
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Associated Press COLOMBIA FLOOD: Residents waded through a flooded street in Campo de la Cruz, Colombia, Thursday.
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VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'COLOMBIA: Secret Documents Show US Aware of Army Killings in 1990s'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Declassified U.S. documents show that the CIA and former U.S. ambassadors were fully aware, as far back as 1990, that the military in Colombia -- the third largest recipient of U.S. aid after Israel and Egypt -- were committing extrajudicial killings as part of "death squad tactics."
OpEdNews - Quicklink: COLOMBIA: Secret Documents Show US Aware of Army Killings in 1990s 2009
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WILLIAM BROWNFIELD, U.S. AMBAS.ADOR TO COLOMBIA: I was there at the first place where the plane put down, which is Tolemaida Air Base in southern Colombia.
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COLOMBIA DISASTER: A landslide following weeks of drenching rains has buried more than 50 homes in northwestern Colombia, apparently trapping dozens of people.
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COLOMBIA DISASTER: A landslide following weeks of drenching rains has buried more than 50 homes in northwestern Colombia, apparently trapping dozens of people.
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COLOMBIA DISASTER: A landslide following weeks of drenching rains has buried more than 50 homes in northwestern Colombia, apparently trapping dozens of people.
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COLOMBIA DISASTER: A landslide following weeks of drenching rains has buried more than 50 homes in northwestern Colombia, apparently trapping dozens of people.
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COLOMBIA DISASTER: A landslide following weeks of drenching rains has buried more than 50 homes in northwestern Colombia, apparently trapping dozens of people.
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COLOMBIA DISASTER: A landslide following weeks of drenching rains has buried more than 50 homes in northwestern Colombia, apparently trapping dozens of people.
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BOGOTA, COLOMBIA - The sounds of laughter and salsa music rise from a small private campground on the edge of the river outside the small town of Malambo, Colombia.
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