Columba
- Proper noun. St. Columba of Iona (Old Irish ''Columb Cille'', meaning "Dove of the church"); one of the Gaelic missionary monks who reintroduced Christianity to Scotland during the Dark Ages.
- Proper noun. Any of three other Christian saints who bore the name Columba.
- Proper noun. (constellation) A small winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a dove. It was introduced by Augustin Royer in 1679, as a split from the constellation Canis Major.
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