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colorado

UK/kɒləˈɹɑːdəʊ//kɑləˈɹɑdoʊ/

colorado noun: a cigar of medium color and strength.

Noun

colorado (plural colorados)

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

Proper noun capitalized: Colorado

Colorado

  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.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...
  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...1878, "Colorado", Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. VI, p. 162
    • 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...2023 June 21, Haley Talbot and Kristin Wilson, “House votes to censure Democratic congressman who led Trump investigations”, in CNN
  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.
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  1. A barangay of Digos, Davao del Sur, Philippines.
  2. A barangay of Jabonga, Agusan del Norte, Philippines.
  3. A surname.

colorado meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

colorado in Hindi

कोलोराडो, कलोराडो, कलराडो

colorado in Tamil

கொலராடோ, கோலோராடோ, கோலராடோ

colorado in Marathi

कोलोराडो, कोलोरॅडो, कलोराडो

colorado in Urdu

کولوراڈو, کالوراڈو, کولراڈو
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colorado in Bengali
কলোরাডো, কোলোরাডো
colorado in Telugu
కోలోరాడో, కొలరాడో, కలోరాడో
colorado in Malayalam
കൊളറാഡോ, കൊളോറാഡോ, കോളറാഡോ
colorado in Kannada
ಕೊಲೊರಾಡೋ, ಕೋಲೋರಾಡೋ, ಕಲೋರಾಡೋ
colorado in Punjabi
ਕੋਲੋਰਾਡੋ, ਕਲੋਰਾਡੋ
colorado in Gujarati
કોલોરાડો
colorado in Odia
କୋଲୋରାଡୋ, କଲୋରାଡୋ, କଲରାଡୋ
colorado in Nepali
कोलोराडो, कलोराडो, कलरडो

Forms of colorado

pluralcolorados

Origin of colorado

Borrowed from Spanish colorado.

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.

Words formed from colorado

Phrases with colorado

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Words that rhyme with colorado

Questions about colorado

What does colorado mean?
Colorado means a cigar of medium color and strength.
What is colorado in Hindi?
Colorado in Hindi is कोलोराडो, कलोराडो, कलराडो. See Colorado meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is colorado?
Colorado can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce colorado?
Colorado is pronounced /kɑləˈɹɑdoʊ/ (US).
What is the plural of colorado?
The plural of colorado is colorados.

Words near colorado in the dictionary

  1. colorableness
  2. colorably
  3. Coloradan
  4. Coloradans
  5. coloradito
  6. colorado
  7. Colorado beetle
  8. Colorado beetles
  9. Colorado blue spruce
  10. Colorado blue spruces
  11. Colorado brown stain

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colorado (page history and authors); Colorado (page history and authors); colorado (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); colorado (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); colorado (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); colorado (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); colorado (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); colorado (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); colorado (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); colorado (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); colorado (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); colorado (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); colorado (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); colorado (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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