colorado — ozdic

Collocations

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ADJ.

general, great, known, large, legal, silver, solar, third-largest

The great Colorado River carved deep canyons through the desert landscape.

VERB + COLORADO

born, detected, expanding, farm, making, shooting, ski, skiing

A wildfire was detected in Colorado last week and spread rapidly across several counties.

COLORADO + NOUN

archeologist, assembly, basin, boulder, florida, lodes, lot, river

Archaeologists discovered ancient pottery shards in the Colorado basin during last summer's excavation.

PREP.

along, in, in, through, till

We drove through Colorado on our way to visit my sister in Denver last summer.

ADV.

rapidly, recently

The population in Colorado has grown rapidly over the past decade.

Definitions

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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 rolls, a mad, turbid stream, into the Gulf of California.

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Places in North America:

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.

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noun

1

A cigar of medium color and strength.

2

A fish of the species Lutjanus colorado, the Colorado snapper.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a state in west central United States in the Rocky Mountains

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Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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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

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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 t

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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 an

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The actor has a hideaway in Colorado.

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He has a large farm in Colorado.

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John Kerry was born in Colorado in 1943.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, colorado is marked as historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.