any of certain epics recounting the European settlement and growth of the United States. It may have been derived from La Colombiade, ou la foi porte au nouveau monde, a poem by the French author Marie-Anne Fiquet de Boccage. A relatively well-known example is The Columbiad (1807; an extensive revision of The Vision of Columbus, 1787) by Joel Barlow.
COLUMBIAD
Meaning of COLUMBIAD in English
Britannica English vocabulary. Английский словарь Британика. 2012