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columbine
UK /ˈkɒləmˌbaɪn/ US /ˈkɑləmˌbaɪn/
noun 2name 2adj 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
afraid, good, high
VERB + COLUMBINE
pulling
COLUMBINE + NOUN
idea, innocency, men, school
PREP.
except, from, in, in, with
ADV.
away
Definitions
noun
1
Any plant of the genus Aquilegia, having distinctive bell-shaped flowers with spurs on each petal.
adj
1
Pertaining to a dove or pigeon.
It is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with the columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent.
name
1
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.
2
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.
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Synonyms
noun — a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurre
- aquilegia
- aquilege
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Idioms & Phrases
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It is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with the columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent.
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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 sch
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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 runn
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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
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Granted, I'm not exactly grabbing an ax and going to town or pulling a “Columbine” but the idea of engaging in such activities has crossed my twisted little mind and plagued my black little heart in d
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I remember the second song that played was “Run to the Hills.” I thought my head was going to explode, thinking we were ten minutes away from a Columbine.
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