El Dorado
English
Etymology
From Spanish el dorado (“the golden one”).
Proper noun
El Dorado
- A Muisca tribal chief who covered himself in gold dust.
- A legendary lost city of gold.
- (by extension) Any place of fabulous wealth.
- A city, the county seat of Union County, Arkansas, United States.
- A city, the county seat of Butler County, Kansas, United States.
Derived terms
Translations
a Muisca tribal chief who covered himself in gold dust
a legendary lost city of gold
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any place of fabulous wealth
Further reading
- “El Dorado”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Proper noun
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Spanish
- English terms derived from Spanish
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English multiword terms
- en:Cities in Arkansas, USA
- en:Cities in the United States
- en:County seats of Arkansas, USA
- en:Places in Arkansas, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- en:Cities in Kansas, USA
- en:County seats of Kansas, USA
- en:Places in Kansas, USA
- en:Fictional locations
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese proper nouns
- Portuguese multiword terms
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:European folklore
- pt:Mythological locations