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COLORADO
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state in west central United States in the Rocky Mountains
Synonyms:
Centennial State; CO; Colo.; Colorado
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "Colorado"):
South Platte; South Platte River (a tributary of the Platte River)
Mount Sherman; Sherman (a peak in the Rocky Mountains in central Colorado (14,036 feet high))
San Juan Mountains (a mountain range in southwestern Colorado that is part of the Rocky Mountains)
Republican; Republican River (a tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas)
Pike's Peak (a mountain peak in the Rockies in central Colorado (14,109 feet high))
North Platte; North Platte River (a river that rises in northern Colorado and flows northward into Wyoming and then eastward and southeastward through Nebraska where it joins the South Platte to form the Platte River)
Colorado Plateau (a large plateau to the south and west of the Rocky Mountains; abuts mountains on the north and east and ends in an escarpment overlooking lowlands to the south and west; the Grand Canyon is carved out of the southwestern corner)
Colorado; Colorado River (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)
Arkansas; Arkansas River (a river that rises in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and flows southeast through Kansas and Oklahoma and through Arkansas to become a tributary of the Mississippi River)
Pueblo (a city in Colorado to the south of Colorado Springs)
capital of Colorado; Denver; Mile-High City (the state capital and largest city of Colorado; located in central Colorado on the South Platte river)
Colorado Springs (a city in east central Colorado on the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains; popular tourist center and site of the United States Air Force Academy)
Boulder (a town in north central Colorado; Rocky Mountains resort center and university town)
Rocky Mountain National Park (a national park in Colorado having mountains and lakes and streams and forests)
Mesa Verde National Park (a national park in Colorado containing prehistoric cliff dwellings; semiarid landscape)
Holonyms ("Colorado" is a part of...):
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
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
Synonyms:
Colorado; Colorado River
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))
Holonyms ("Colorado" 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)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A river in Texas; flows southeast into the Gulf of Mexico
Synonyms:
Colorado; Colorado River
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))
Holonyms ("Colorado" is a part of...):
Lone-Star State; Tex.; Texas; TX (the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico)
Context examples:
A year later they were in Colorado, where Hans Nelson saw his first mining and caught the mining- fever himself.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Not so, say scientists Noah Fierer and Tess Brewer of the University of Colorado Boulder.
(Tales from the crypt: Life after death in a graveyard, National Science Foundation)
"There is a speed limit in the study that shows that an ice shelf can't collapse ridiculously fast," said co-author Alison Banwell, a glaciology researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder.
(Reframing the dangers Antarctica's meltwater ponds pose to ice shelves and sea level, National Science Foundation)
Some 30 years ago, a scientist at the University of Colorado Denver suggested that heat from a mantle plume under Marie Byrd Land might explain regional volcanic activity and a topographic dome feature.
(Hot News from the Antarctic Underground, NASA)
Yet birth rates were higher among people to the North and East, in the San Juan Basin and northern San Juan regions of Northwest New Mexico and Southwest Colorado.
(Scientists chart a baby boom in southwestern Native Americans from 500 to 1300 A.D., NSF)
University of Arizona scientists trekked across the Americas: from moist, tropical jungles of Panama to the frigid boreal forests of Colorado to the wet temperate forests of the Pacific Northwest.
(From tropical to boreal ecosystems, temperature drives functioning, National Science Foundation)
A census division of the United States consisting of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.
(Mountain States Census Division, NCI Thesaurus)
A new study from University of Colorado Boulder shows these excess emissions alone lead to 38,000 premature deaths annually worldwide.
(Diesel Pollutes More Than Lab Tests Detect, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder) scientists working at Niwot Ridge in Colorado's Rocky Mountains studied 15 years of snowmelt and atmospheric CO2 data to determine the effects of changes in snowmelt periods.
(Earlier snowmelt decreases streamflow, reduces forests' ability to regulate atmospheric carbon dioxide, NSF)
CWD was first identified in 1967 in captive deer held in Colorado wildlife facilities.
(Study finds no chronic wasting disease transmissibility in macaques, National Institutes of Health)
