El Dorado

[ el duh-rah-doh, -rey-or, Spanish, el daw-rah-thaw el duh-rey-doh ]

noun

1. a legendary treasure city of South America, sought by the early Spanish explorers.
2. any place offering great wealth.
3. a city in S Arkansas.
4. a town in S Kansas.

El Dorado

/ ɛl doˈraðo; ɛl dɒˈrɑːdəʊ /

noun

1. a fabled city in South America, rich in treasure and sought by Spanish explorers in the 16th century
2. Alsoeldorado any place of great riches or fabulous opportunity

El Dorado

1. A place of fabulous wealth, or an opportunity to obtain it. During the gold rush many adventurers believed that California would be their El Dorado. The name comes from the name of a legendary South American city of stupendous riches sought by Spanish conquistadores .

Word History and Origins

Origin of El Dorado¹

C16: from Spanish, literally: the gilded (place)

Example Sentences

The El Dorado district appears to mimic Las Vegas, while Monte Visto looks a lot like the gated communities in the Palm Springs area of California.

From Washington Post

We might not need the level of detail on Hudson’s novel Green Mansions, for example, or the blow-by-blow account of Sir Walter Raleigh’s efforts to find El Dorado in southern Guyana.

From Outside Online

However, strong Santa Ana winds from the east intensified the Bobcat and El Dorado fires in the San Gabriel mountain range east of the Los Angeles metro area, and ground crews put out the call for more Air Attack help.

From Popular-Science

In one image, a crouched woman in a dark alley drinks from a bottle marked “El Dorado,” while boxes burn nearby.

From The Daily Beast

The one that gets me the most is the El Dorado Chemical Plant.

From The Daily Beast

And yet for his new book, The Lost City of Z, Grann marched off into the Amazon jungle to search for a fabled El Dorado.

From The Daily Beast

May we not connect with the former existence of this inland sea the fable of the lake Parima and the El Dorado?

From Project Gutenberg

The term ‘El Dorado’ has come to be a synonym in the outside world for a sort of earthly paradise, has it not?

From Project Gutenberg

To conquer that El Dorado had been Balboa's cherished dream.

From Project Gutenberg

But how often is it true that the seeker after El Dorado searches for one thing and finds another.

From Project Gutenberg

The costly myth of El Dorado, from the earliest days of its conception, was insatiable in the matter of human lives.

From Project Gutenberg