hoover dam

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   a large dam built in 1933 on the Colorado River in Nevada

   Broaderdam

   Part ofNevada

Questions about hoover dam

What does hoover dam mean?

hoover dam means "a large dam built in 1933 on the Colorado River in Nevada".

Is hoover dam a common word?

hoover dam 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.