colorado
/kɑləˈɹɑdoʊ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.46 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
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Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: colorado
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kɑləˈɹɑdoʊ/
- British English: /kɒləˈɹɑːdəʊ/
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
Colorado beetle
Colorado blue spruce
Colorado bristlecone pine
Colorado bur
Colorado City
Colorado County
Colorado Desert
Colorado fir