colorado
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/kɑləˈɹɑdoʊ/
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/kɑləˈɹɑdoʊ/ · /kɑləˈɹædoʊ/ · /kɒləˈɹɑːdəʊ/ · /kɒləˈɹeɪdoʊ/
Definition of colorado
17 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
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Places in North America:
“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.”
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Places in North America:
“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.”
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Places in North America:
“The vote was 213-209 along party lines. Republican members of the House Ethics Committee – Michael Guest of Mississippi, Dave Joyce of Ohio, Andrew Garbarino of New York, John Rutherford of Florida and Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota – voted present. GOP Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado also voted present but he is not on the Ethics Committee.”
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- A surname.
noun
- A cigar of medium color and strength.
- A fish of the species Lutjanus colorado, the Colorado snapper.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
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.
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