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El Dorado

El Dorado proper noun: a Muisca tribal chief who covered himself in gold dust.

Proper noun

El Dorado

  1. A Muisca tribal chief who covered himself in gold dust.
  2. A legendary lost city of gold.
  3. (broadly) Any place of fabulous wealth.
  4. A city, the county seat of Union County, Arkansas, United States.
  5. A city, the county seat of Butler County, Kansas, United States.

El Dorado meaning in Tamil

El Dorado in Tamil

கற்பனைப் பொன்னாடு

Origin of El Dorado

From Spanish el dorado (“the golden one”).

Words formed from El Dorado

Questions about El Dorado

What does El Dorado mean?
El Dorado means a Muisca tribal chief who covered himself in gold dust.
What is El Dorado in Tamil?
El Dorado in Tamil is கற்பனைப் பொன்னாடு. See El Dorado meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is El Dorado?
El Dorado is a proper noun.

Words near El Dorado in the dictionary

  1. El Collao
  2. El Congo
  3. El Desemboque
  4. El Divisadero
  5. El Dollarado
  6. El Dorado
  7. El Dorado County
  8. El Dorado Hills
  9. El Escorial
  10. El Espíritu Santo
  11. El Fasher

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Adapted from Wiktionary: El Dorado (page history and authors); el dorado (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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