PAINTED DESERT

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Painted Desert mean? 

• PAINTED DESERT (noun)
  The noun PAINTED DESERT has 1 sense:

1. a desert on a high plateau in northeastern Arizona

  Familiarity information: PAINTED DESERT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAINTED DESERT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A desert on a high plateau in northeastern Arizona

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

desert (arid land with little or no vegetation)

Holonyms ("Painted Desert" is a part of...):

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

 Context examples 

One instant he was astride a broncho and flying through the fairy-colored Painted Desert country; the next instant he was gazing down through shimmering heat into the whited sepulchre of Death Valley, or pulling an oar on a freezing ocean where great ice islands towered and glistened in the sun.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)