Definitions for condor

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condor con·dor

Spelling: [kon-der, -dawr]

IPA: /ˈkɒn dər, -dɔr/

Condor is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 78 anagrams from letters in condor (cdnoor).

Definitions for condor

noun

1. either of two large, New World vultures of the family Cathartidae, Gymnogyps californianus (California condor) or Vultur gryphus (Andean condor) the largest flying birds in the Western Hemisphere: the California condor is almost extinct; the Andean condor is greatly reduced in number and rare in many areas.
2. a former coin of Chile equal to 10 pesos.
3. a former coin of Ecuador equal to 10 sucres.

Origin of condor

1595-1605; Spanish American Spanish Quechua kuntur

Examples for condor

Darwin has noted that the condor was only to be found in the neighborhood of such cliffs.

"On the present occasion I am in earnest, Mr. condor," Wilkinson replied.

The condor is said formerly to have been worshipped in Peru.

It is the condor, the largest of the vulture tribe; the monarch of the birds of that region.

Edgar had now lost the companionship both of condor and Wilkinson.

An avalanche sweeps some of them away; a condor carries off a lad.

condor walked to his accustomed seat at the head of the table.

I hope there will be no more ill-feeling between us, condor,' he said.

condor had to go on the sick-list half an hour after the fight was over.

For I knew that I could both fight and tell lies, besides defying the condor.