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colombo
/kəˈlʌmboʊ/
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What does colombo mean?
noun
- Alternative form of calumba.
proper noun
- The commercial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka.
- The Sri Lankan government.
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proper noun
- A surname from Italian.
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IPA pronunciation
/kəˈlʌmboʊ/
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From Italy came Professor Colombo, later a cabinet minister, with his friend Signor Buzzi, of Milan.
On one occasion in Colombo, in Ceylon, there was an unrehearsed episode in a juggler's performance.
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Both Servetus and Colombo knew of the pulmonary circulation, which was described by the former in very accurate terms.
The last little brown boy I chanced to notice in the crowds and swarms of Colombo had nothing on but a twine string around his waist, but in my memory the frank honesty of his costume still stands out in pleasant contrast with the odious flummery in which the little Sunday-school dowdies were masquerading.