El Dorado
a legendary treasure city of South America, sought by the early Spanish explorers.
any place offering great wealth.
a city in S Arkansas.
a town in S Kansas.
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How to use El Dorado in a sentence
By the way, a mint condition 1958 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz convertible can now sell for as much as $350,000.
Moving to Pringle would be a journey of some 1,017 miles from Eldorado.
The New Polygamists on the Block: Warren Jeffs’s FLDS on the Move? | Matthew DeLuca | December 4, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBonanza and Eldorado Kings, with money to burn, were leaving for the Outside because they could buy no grub.
The Red One | Jack LondonThis created a veritable Eldorado for "employment managers" and "labor managers," real and spurious.
A History of Trade Unionism in the United States | Selig PerlmanThis is particularly noticeable in the mountains which close in the Eldorado and Bonanza Valleys.
Ingots of gold, pretending to have come from the new Eldorado of Louisiana, were displayed in the shop-windows of Paris.
A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I | Francis ParkmanWith the exception of this cruel drawback, the new land indeed proved an Eldorado to Victor.
Rutledge | Miriam Coles Harris
British Dictionary definitions for El Dorado
/ (ɛl dɒˈrɑːdəʊ, Spanish ɛl doˈraðo) /
a fabled city in South America, rich in treasure and sought by Spanish explorers in the 16th century
Also: eldorado any place of great riches or fabulous opportunity
Origin of El Dorado
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for El Dorado
[ (el duh-rah-doh) ]
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.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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