orinoco

1. 1.

   a South American river 1,500 miles long; flows into the South Atlantic

   SynonymsOrinoco River

   Broaderriver

   Part ofVenezuelaColombia

Other forms of orinoco

plural

orinocoes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about orinoco

What does orinoco mean?

orinoco means "a South American river 1,500 miles long; flows into the South Atlantic".

How many syllables are in orinoco?

orinoco has 4 syllables: o-ri-no-co. The stress falls on "no". In IPA it is /ˌɔɹəˈnoʊkoʊ/.

What is another word for orinoco?

Close synonyms include Orinoco River. 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 orinoco a common word?

orinoco is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.