colorado

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
13
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/kɑləˈɹɑdoʊ/
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/kɑləˈɹɑdoʊ/ · /kɑləˈɹædoʊ/ · /kɒləˈɹɑːdəʊ/ · /kɒləˈɹeɪdoʊ/

Definition of colorado

17 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

name

  1. 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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name

  1. 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.”
  2. 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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  15. A surname.

noun

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

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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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