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Word Origin & History
eldorado
1596, from Sp. El Dorado "the golden one," name given 16c. to country or city believed to lie in the heart of the Amazon jungle, from pp. of dorar "to gild."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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| eldorado | |
noun | |
| an imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity; sought in South America by 16th-century explorers [syn: El Dorado] |
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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Eldorado
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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