Colorado River

proper noun

A major river in Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California, United States and Baja California and Sonora, Mexico.

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Meanings

proper nounthe Colorado River
  1. A major river in Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California, United States and Baja California and Sonora, Mexico.

    Where the Colorado River forms the boundary between California and Arizona it cuts through a number of volcanic rocks by black, yawning canyons.

    1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter 1, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20
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    Between us and the Colorado river we were aware that the country was extremely poor in grass, and scarce for water, there being many jornadas, (days’ journey,) or long stretches of 40 to 60 miles, without water, where the road was marked by bones of animals.

    1845, J[ohn] C[harles] Frémont, Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-’44, Washington: Gales and Seaton, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 259

    Along the Colorado River there is no town from Moab in Utah to Needles in California, a distance of over a thousand miles (if we except the two small, improvised, completely artificial company towns connected with the building and operation of Glen Canyon Dam and Boulder Dam).

    1968, Edward Abbey, “Down the River”, in Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, McGraw-Hill; republished New York: Touchstone, 1968, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 171
  2. A river in Texas, United States.
  3. A river in Argentina.
  4. A river in Potosí, Bolivia.
  5. A river in Costa Rica.

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Translations

French Colorado
  • Coloradoriver in the United States
Thai แม่น้ำโคโลราโด, โคโลราโด
  • แม่น้ำโคโลราโดriver in the United States
  • โคโลราโด (koo-loo-raa-dôo)river in the United States
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APA

Colorado River. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Colorado%20River

MLA

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Chicago

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