Colorado

Proper noun

1. Places in North America:
   • 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...

   Meronyms: humpback chub

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

   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 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...

   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.

2. Places in South America:

   1. A river in southern Argentina, running from the Andes into the Atlantic.

   2. A municipality of Paraná, Brazil.

   3. A municipality of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

   4. 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.