COLORADO RIVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Colorado River mean? 

• COLORADO RIVER (noun)
  The noun COLORADO RIVER has 2 senses:

1. a river in Texas; flows southeast into the Gulf of Mexico

2. an important river in the southwestern United States; rises in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado and flows southwest through Utah into Arizona (where it flows through the Grand Canyon) and then southward through the southern tip of Nevada, then forming the border between California and Arizona and finally into Mexico where it empties into the Gulf of California; the main source of water in the southwestern United States

  Familiarity information: COLORADO RIVER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLORADO RIVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A river in Texas; flows southeast into the Gulf of Mexico

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Colorado; Colorado River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Colorado River" is a part of...):

Lone-Star State; Tex.; Texas; TX (the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An important river in the southwestern United States; rises in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado and flows southwest through Utah into Arizona (where it flows through the Grand Canyon) and then southward through the southern tip of Nevada, then forming the border between California and Arizona and finally into Mexico where it empties into the Gulf of California; the main source of water in the southwestern United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Colorado; Colorado River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Colorado River" is a part of...):

Mexico; United Mexican States (a republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810)

Arizona; AZ; Grand Canyon State (a state in southwestern United States; site of the Grand Canyon)

Centennial State; CO; Colo.; Colorado (a state in west central United States in the Rocky Mountains)

Battle Born State; Nev.; Nevada; NV; Sagebrush State; Silver State (a state in the western United States)

Beehive State; Mormon State; UT; Ut.; Utah (a state in the western United States; settled in 1847 by Mormons led by Brigham Young)