Definitions for Dorado

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Dorado do·ra·do

Spelling: [duh-rah-doh]

IPA: /dəˈrɑ doʊ/

Dorado is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in Dorado (addoor).

Definitions for Dorado

noun

1. dolphin (def 2).
2. a city in N Puerto Rico.
3. the Swordfish, a small southern constellation between Volans and Horologium.
4. a legendary treasure city of South America, sought by the early Spanish explorers.
5. any place offering great wealth.
6. a city in S Arkansas.
7. a town in S Kansas.

Origin of Dorado

1595-1605; Spanish Late Latin deaurātus, past participle of deaurāre to gild. See de-, aurum, -ate¹

Examples for Dorado

The fish course included the royal sturgeon, the dorado or sword-fish, the turbot.

Its original form had been lost sight of, and from the dorado had gradually been changed to a golden tribe.

Morales had called him his dorado, his brave little golden one!

Have you not yourself a dorado, a camarada, who rides with you on your greater crimes, the Nino de Arahal?

It had become a confusion and combination of the dorado and Meta, following the curious but characteristic course of myths.

“Orange the best bait for a dorado,” said the Italian softly, as he placed the point of the hook to his satisfaction.

The dorado makes a dash at them, and gets hooked—generally through the back.

Scarcely could you say he became more at his ease, more the boon compaero and dorado.

This is the guaracapema of Piso and Marcgrave, by others called the dorado.

When it came out of the water it was a bright yellow, to which colour it owes its name of dorado.