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Colorado¹

  • /kɑləˈɹɑdoʊ/ US
  • /kɑləˈɹædoʊ/ US
  • /kɒləˈɹɑːdəʊ/ UK
  • /kɒləˈɹeɪdoʊ/ obsolete

Rhymes with -ɑːdəʊ, -ædəʊ

Where it comes from

From Spanish colorado (“red, ruddy, colored”), usually from the reddish appearance of some silt-laden rivers, or from Portuguese colorado in the case of Brazilian locations.

proper noun

  1. A major river of western North America, running from the Rocky Mountains in the United States to the Gulf of California in Mexico. A million cascade brooks unite to form a thousand torrent creeks ; a thousand torrent creeks unite to form half a hundred rivers beset with cataracts ; half a hundred roaring rivers unite to form the Colorado, which rolls, a mad, turbid stream, into the Gulf of California.
  2. A state in the western United States, the 38th state. Capital and largest city: Denver. The mountains of Colorado were, till a comparatively recent date, richly clothed with forest; but owing partly to natural causes, and still more to the lavish consumption and reckless destruction of the early settlers, the quantity of growing timber in the State is exceedingly small, and before long
  3. A river in Texas in the United States, flowing into the Gulf of Mexico.
  4. An unincorporated community in Texas, United States.
  5. historical The Territory of Colorado, a former territory of the United States.
  6. historical A ghost town in California, United States.
  7. A river in southern Argentina, running from the Andes into the Atlantic.
  8. A municipality of Paraná, Brazil.
  9. A municipality of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
  10. A village in the Dominican Republic.
  11. A sitio in the barangay of Twin Peaks, Tuba, Benguet, Philippines.
  12. A barangay of San Guillermo, Isabela, Philippines.
  13. A barangay of Digos, Davao del Sur, Philippines.
  14. A barangay of Jabonga, Agusan del Norte, Philippines.
  15. A surname.

colorado²

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Spanish colorado.

noun colorados

  1. A cigar of medium color and strength.
  2. A fish of the species Lutjanus colorado, the Colorado snapper.

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