mile-high city

1. 1.

   the state capital and largest city of Colorado; located in central Colorado on the South Platte river

   SynonymsDenvercapital of Colorado

   Broaderstate capital

   Part ofColorado

Questions about mile-high city

What does mile-high city mean?

mile-high city means "the state capital and largest city of Colorado; located in central Colorado on the South Platte river".

What is another word for mile-high city?

Close synonyms include Denver, capital of 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 mile-high city a common word?

mile-high city 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.