colorado river

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsColorado

   Broaderriver

   Part ofTexas
2. 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

   SynonymsColorado

   Broaderriver

   Part ofColoradoUtahArizonaNevada

Questions about colorado river

What does colorado river mean?

colorado river means "a river in Texas; flows southeast into the Gulf of Mexico". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for colorado river?

Close synonyms include Colorado, Colorado. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is colorado river a common word?

colorado river is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.