dorado

¹

[duh-rah-doh]

noun

plural

dorados ,

plural

dorado .

1. dolphin.

Dorado

²

[duh-rah-doh, daw-rah-thaw]

noun

genitive

Doradus 

1. a city in N Puerto Rico.

2. the Swordfish, a small southern constellation between Volans and Horologium.

dorado

¹

/ dəˈrɑːdəʊ /

noun

1. another name for dolphin

2. a South American river fish of the genus Salminus that resembles a salmon

Dorado

²

/ dəˈrɑːdəʊ /

noun

1. a constellation in the S hemisphere lying between Reticulum and Pictor and containing part of the Large Magellanic cloud

Word History and Origins

Origin of dorado¹

1595–1605; < Spanish < Late Latin deaurātus, past participle of deaurāre to gild. See de-, aurum, -ate ¹

Origin of dorado²

From Spanish, dating back to 1595–1605; dorado

Word History and Origins

Origin of dorado¹

C17: from Spanish, from dorar to gild, from Latin _de- + -aurāre, from aurum gold

Example Sentences

The mudslide that hit Cedar Falls Road included parts of a five-year-old burn scar from the El Dorado fire, according to Caltrans.

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“The debris flow is from the El Dorado fire, and that mountain peak has an extremely high elevation out of reach for even the most experienced contractors,” Caltrans said in a Facebook post.

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On Aug. 17, four days before the standoff on Butler Avenue, deputies from the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office found a bear inside an ice-cream store in South Lake Tahoe and snapped a photo.

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On Aug. 21 around 9 p.m., deputies with the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a shooting in Cameron Park, a suburban community about 30 miles east of Sacramento in the Sierra Nevada foothills, according to a department news release.

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The next day, he was booked into the El Dorado County Jail for two counts of homicide and is being held on no bail.

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