ELDORADO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eldorado mean? 

• ELDORADO (noun)
  The noun ELDORADO has 1 sense:

1. an imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity; sought in South America by 16th-century explorers

  Familiarity information: ELDORADO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELDORADO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity; sought in South America by 16th-century explorers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

El Dorado; eldorado

Hypernyms ("eldorado" is a kind of...):

fictitious place; imaginary place; mythical place (a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings)