What does "colorado" mean?
A cigar of medium color and strength.
Colorado
/kɑləˈɹɑdoʊ/ name, noun
name, noun ·Moderate ·College level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A cigar of medium color and strength.
- Grammar: colorado is listed as name, noun.
- Nearest alternatives: belvedere, colorado state, colorado-related, colored.
- Useful contrasts: colorless, foreign country, nonstate.
- Usage evidence: The actor has a hideaway in Colorado.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A cigar of medium color and strength.
- 2 A fish of the species Lutjanus colorado, the Colorado snapper.
Proper Noun
- 1 Places in North America:; 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 Places in North America:; 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, if restorative measures are not adopted, the Colorado demand for wood will require to be supplied from without. Whole mountain sides often present the appearance of monstrous cheavaux-de-frise, the dead trunks of the wind-thrown pines being tossed about in all directions."
- 3 Places in North America:; A river in Texas in the United States, flowing into the Gulf of Mexico.
- 4 Places in North America:; An unincorporated community in Texas, United States.
- 5 Places in North America:; The Territory of Colorado, a former territory of the United States. historical
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- 6 Places in North America:; A ghost town in California, United States. historical
- 7 Places in South America:; A river in southern Argentina, running from the Andes into the Atlantic.
- 8 Places in South America:; A municipality of Paraná, Brazil.
- 9 Places in South America:; A municipality of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
- 10 Places in South America:; A village in the Dominican Republic.
- 11 Places in the Philippines:; A sitio in the barangay of Twin Peaks, Tuba, Benguet, Philippines.
- 12 Places in the Philippines:; A barangay of San Guillermo, Isabela, Philippines.
- 13 Places in the Philippines:; A barangay of Digos, Davao del Sur, Philippines.
- 14 Places in the Philippines:; A barangay of Jabonga, Agusan del Norte, Philippines.
Synonyms
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"The actor has a hideaway in Colorado."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "colorado"?
Common synonyms include: belvedere, colorado state, colorado-related, colored, corona, dyed.
How do you use "colorado" in a sentence?
The actor has a hideaway in Colorado.
How do you pronounce "colorado"?
Pronounced /kɑləˈɹɑdoʊ/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
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.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Spanish colorado.