NOUN
- Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)
How To Use Christopher Columbus In A Sentence
- Said to be the original landfall of Christopher Columbus, it is graced with elegant Bermudian and colonial-style buildings.
- I also just happened across this piece claiming that Christopher Columbus' real name was Giovanni Griego, and he was a known pirate in the employ of the King of Portugal.
- The world's oldest working film director, 98-year-old Manoel de Oliveira, has begun shooting his latest pic, Christopher Columbus: The Enigma, produced by Francois d'Artemare of Filmes do Tejo," reports Martin Dale for Variety. GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 4/5.
- The result is that, for instance, in the Monk's Vegetable Garden you'll see fennel, nettles, arugula, marigolds and orache -- an early variety of spinach -- but not tomatoes, aubergines, peppers and sweetcorn, which only came to Europe after Christopher Columbus's voyages to America, "Mr. Charoy says. Gardens of Delight
- Eventually the compass made its way to Europe and onto the ships Christopher Columbus used to voyage across the Atlantic.
- Trinidad was named by Christopher Columbus on his third voyage to the New World.
- We decided on the word canoe, which is a word that Christopher Columbus heard from some of the Indians. America In So Many Words
- From the old worlds of Christopher Columbus and the Conquistadors to the new world of cocoa lattes and double mochaccinos, hot chocolate has come full circle.
- Commissioned for the quincentenary of Christopher Columbus's journey to the New World, "The Voyage" sailed into the Met right on schedule last week, exactly 500 years after the famous landing. Santa Maria And Spaceships
- Their claim to possession of the entire North American continent is based on an impressive array of statistics, historical records, and recent incidents of real or alleged abuses by the so-called White Supremacists, who allegedly stole the continent from the original inhabitants and have continued to oppress them ever since the so-called "discovery" of the New World by Christopher Columbus in 1492. Aztec, Mexica, or Alien?
