Colorado
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑləˈɹɑdoʊ/
ipa: /kɑləˈɹædoʊ/
ipa: /kɒləˈɹɑːdəʊ/
ipa: /kɒləˈɹeɪdoʊ/
rhymes: -ɑːdəʊ
rhymes: -ædəʊ
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.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 29:
glosses: 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.
meronyms: humpback chub
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1878, "Colorado", Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. VI, p. 162
text: 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.
ref: 2023 June 21, Haley Talbot and Kristin Wilson, “House votes to censure Democratic congressman who led Trump investigations”, in CNN:
glosses: Places in North America:
A state in the western United States, the 38th state. Capital and largest city: Denver.
glosses: Places in North America:
A river in Texas in the United States, flowing into the Gulf of Mexico.
glosses: Places in North America:
An unincorporated community in Texas, United States.
glosses: Places in North America:
The Territory of Colorado, a former territory of the United States.
glosses: Places in North America:
A ghost town in California, United States.
glosses: Places in South America:
A river in southern Argentina, running from the Andes into the Atlantic.
glosses: Places in South America:
A municipality of Paraná, Brazil.
glosses: Places in South America:
A municipality of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
glosses: Places in South America:
A village in the Dominican Republic.
glosses: Places in the Philippines:
A sitio in the barangay of Twin Peaks, Tuba, Benguet, Philippines.
glosses: Places in the Philippines:
A barangay of San Guillermo, Isabela, Philippines.
glosses: Places in the Philippines:
A barangay of Digos, Davao del Sur, Philippines.
glosses: Places in the Philippines:
A barangay of Jabonga, Agusan del Norte, Philippines.
Derived terms: word: CO
word: Coloradan
word: Coloradoan
taxonomic: Leptinotarsa decemlineata
word: Colorado beetle
taxonomic: Picea pungens
word: Colorado blue spruce
taxonomic: Pinus aristata
word: Colorado bristlecone pine
taxonomic: Solanum rostratum
word: Colorado bur
word: Colorado City
word: Colorado County
word: Colorado Desert
taxonomic: Abies concolor
word: Colorado fir
taxonomic: Mirabilis multiflora
word: Colorado four o'clock
taxonomic: Picea pungens
word: Colorado green spruce
taxonomic: Pinus edulis
word: Colorado pinyon
word: Colorado Plateau
taxonomic: Leptinotarsa decemlineata
word: Colorado potato beetle
word: Colorado River
taxonomic: Chauliognathus basalis
word: Colorado soldier beetle
word: Colorado Springs
taxonomic: Picea pungens
word: Colorado spruce
word: Colorado State
word: Colorado topaz
word: Little Colorado