Columbine

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any plant of the genus Aquilegia, having distinctive bell-shaped flowers with spurs on each petal.
2. sıfat Pertaining to a dove or pigeon.

   “Near-synonyms: columboid, peristeronic”

3. özel isim A census-designated place in Arapahoe County and Jefferson County, Colorado, United States.

   “In 1999 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, 18-year-old Eric Harris and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold killed 12 of their fellow students and a teacher before taking their own lives in the school library.”

4. özel isim The sweetheart of Harlequin in old pantomimes.

   “The Clown is a London cockney, with a prodigious eye to his own comfort and muffins,—a Lord Mayor's fool, who loved "everything that was good;" and Columbine is the boarding-school girl, ripe for running away with, and making a dance of it all the way from Chelsea to Gretna Green.”

5. isim An incident in which someone shoots multiple people at a school.

   “Research indicates that many children are afraid of “a Columbine” occurring in their school, or are concerned about other forms of school violence (Aronson, 2000; Garbarino & deLara, 2002; Gaughan et al., 2001; National Association of Attorneys General, 2000).”