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.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɑləˈɹɑdoʊ/, /kɑləˈɹædoʊ/^[1]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɒləˈɹɑːdəʊ/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /kɒləˈɹeɪdoʊ/^[2]

• Audio (US); /kɑləˈrɑdoʊ/:

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• Audio (US); /kɑləˈrædoʊ/:

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• Rhymes: -ɑːdəʊ, -ædəʊ

Colorado

1. Places in North America:
   2. A major river of western North America, running from the Rocky Mountains in the United States to the Gulf of California in Mexico.

      Meronym: humpback chub

      • 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:

        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.

   4. A state in the western United States, the 38th state. Capital and largest city: Denver.
      • 1878, "Colorado", Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. VI, p. 162:

        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.

      • 2023 June 21, Haley Talbot and Kristin Wilson, “House votes to censure Democratic congressman who led Trump investigations”, in CNN‎^[1]:

        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.

   6. A river in Texas in the United States, flowing into the Gulf of Mexico.
   7. An unincorporated community in Texas, United States.
   8. (historical) The Territory of Colorado, a former territory of the United States.
   9. (historical) A ghost town in California, United States.
2. Places in South America:
   1. A river in southern Argentina, running from the Andes into the Atlantic.
   3. A municipality of Paraná, Brazil.
   5. A municipality of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
   6. A village in the Dominican Republic.
3. Places in the Philippines:
   1. A sitio in the barangay of Twin Peaks, Tuba, Benguet, Philippines.
   2. A barangay of San Guillermo, Isabela, Philippines.
   3. A barangay of Digos, Davao del Sur, Philippines.
   4. A barangay of Jabonga, Agusan del Norte, Philippines.
4. A surname.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Colorado is the 11810^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2650 individuals. Colorado is most common among Hispanic (87.62%) individuals.

Divisions of the United States of America in English (layout · text)

States: Alabama · Alaska · Arizona · Arkansas · California · Colorado · Connecticut · Delaware · Florida · Georgia · Hawaii · Idaho · Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kansas · Kentucky · Louisiana · Maine · Maryland · Massachusetts · Michigan · Minnesota · Mississippi · Missouri · Montana · Nebraska · Nevada · New Hampshire · New Jersey · New Mexico · New York · North Carolina · North Dakota · Ohio · Oklahoma · Oregon · Pennsylvania · Rhode Island · South Carolina · South Dakota · Tennessee · Texas · Utah · Vermont · Virginia · Washington · West Virginia · Wisconsin · Wyoming

Federal district: Washington, D.C.

Territories: American Samoa · Guam · Northern Mariana Islands · Puerto Rico · United States minor outlying islands · United States Virgin Islands

• Colorado on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Colorado on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
• Colorado on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage
• Category:Colorado on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Colorado m

1. Colorado (a state in the western United States, the 38th state)

Colorado

1. Colorado (a state in the western United States, the 38th state)

Borrowed from English Colorado.

Colorado (genitive Colorados)

1. Colorado (a state in the western United States, the 38th state)

• Kolorado

From English Colorado.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkolorɑ(ː)do/, [ˈko̞lo̞ˌrɑ̝(ː)do̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑdo

Colorado

1. Colorado (a state in the western United States, the 38th state)

Borrowed from English Colorado.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.lɔ.ʁa.do/

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le Colorado m

1. Colorado, Colorado River (a major river of western North America, running from the Rocky Mountains in the United States to the Gulf of California in Mexico)
2. Colorado (a state in the western United States, the 38th state)

   Hypernym: État

   Holonym: États-Unis

• Petit Colorado

From Spanish colorado, partly through English Colorado.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɔloˈʁaːdo/
• IPA^(key): /ˌkɔləˈɹaːdo/ (rare and only for the US places)

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Colorado n (proper noun, genitive Colorados or (optionally with an article) Colorado)

1. Colorado (a state in the western United States, the 38th state)

Borrowed from English Colorado, from Spanish colorado.

• IPA^(key): /ko.loˈra.do/
• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: Co‧lo‧rà‧do

Colorado m

1. Colorado (a state in the western United States, the 38th state)

Divisions of the United States of America in Italian (layout · text)

Stati: Alabama · Alasca (Alaska) · Arizona · Arkansas · California · Colorado · Connecticut · Delaware · Florida · Georgia · Hawaii · Idaho · Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kansas · Kentucky · Luisiana (Louisiana) · Maine · Maryland · Massachusetts · Michigan · Minnesota · Mississippi · Missouri · Montana · Nebraska · Nevada · New Hampshire · New Jersey · New Mexico · New York · Carolina Settentrionale · Nord Dakota · Ohio · Oklahoma · Oregon · Pennsylvania · Rhode Island · Carolina Meridionale · Sud Dakota · Tennessee · Texas · Utah · Vermont · Virginia · Washington · Virginia Occidentale · Wisconsin · Wyoming

Distretto federale: Washington D.C.

Territori: Samoa americane · Guam · Isole Marianne Settentrionali · Porto Rico · Isole minori esterne degli Stati Uniti · Isole Vergini Americane

• Rhymes: -adu
• Hyphenation: Co‧lo‧ra‧do
• Homophone: colorado

Borrowed from English Colorado.

Colorado m (demonym coloradense)

1. Colorado, Colorado River (a major river of western North America, running from the Rocky Mountains in the United States to the Gulf of California in Mexico)
2. Colorado (a state in the western United States, the 38th state)

Colorado f (demonym coloradense)

1. Colorado (a municipality of Paraná, Brazil)

From colorado (“red”), after its reddish appearance. The city was named after the hydronym.

Colorado m

1. a river in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
   • 2025 April 1, Gabriel Quadros, Gustavo Gossen, “Bombeiros fazem buscas por homem que caiu no Rio Colorado durante pescaria no interior de Tapera”, in GHZ Passo Fundo‎^[2], Porto Alegre: Grupo RBS, archived from the original on 1 April 2025:

     Equipes do Corpo de Bombeiros de Tapera, no norte gaúcho, realizam buscas por um homem de 55 anos que caiu no Rio Colorado, no interior do município, durante uma pescaria na madrugada desta terça-feira (1°).

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Colorado f (demonym coloradense)

1. Colorado (a municipality of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

Colorado n

1. Colorado (a state in the western United States, the 38th state)

• IPA^(key): /kɔlɔraːdɔ/, [ˈkɔlɔraːdɔ]
• Rhymes: -aːdɔ

Colorado n (genitive singular Colorada, declension pattern of mesto)

1. Colorado (a state in the western United States, the 38th state)

• “Colorado”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

• IPA^(key): /koloˈɾado/ [ko.loˈɾa.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: Co‧lo‧ra‧do

Colorado m

1. Colorado (a state in the western United States, the 38th state)
   • 2025 November 26, “Juez federal dice que los oficiales de inmigración en Colorado solo pueden arrestar a quienes corren el riesgo de huir”, in CNN en Español‎^[3], sourced from Associated Press:

     Un juez federal dictaminó el martes que los oficiales de inmigración en Colorado solo pueden arrestar a personas sin una orden judicial si creen que es probable que esas personas huyan.

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• Colorado on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es