Colorado Meaning
/kɑləˈɹɑdoʊ/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA cigar of medium color and strength.
namePlaces 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.
Sentence Examples
The actor has a hideaway in Colorado.
He has a large farm in Colorado.
Colorado is well known for its ski resorts.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The Rocky Mountains in ____ attract many hikers every summer.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Denver is the capital city of ____, known for its mountains.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 29:
"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."
— 2023 June 21, Haley Talbot and Kristin Wilson, “House votes to censure Democratic congressman who led Trump investigations”, in CNN:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The Rocky Mountains in ____ attract many hikers every summer.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Denver is the capital city of ____, known for its mountains.