El Dorado

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El Do·ra·do 1

(də-rä′dō, -rā′-)
A legendary city or historical region of the New World, often thought to be in South America, that was fabled for its great wealth of gold and precious jewels and eagerly sought by 16th- and 17th-century explorers, including Sir Walter Raleigh.

El Do·ra·do 2

(də-rä′dō, -rā′-)
n.
A place of fabulous wealth or inordinately great opportunity.
[After El Dorado1.]
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El Dorado

(ɛl dɒˈrɑːdəʊ; Spanish ɛl doˈraðo)
n
1. (European Myth & Legend) a fabled city in South America, rich in treasure and sought by Spanish explorers in the 16th century
2. Also: eldorado any place of great riches or fabulous opportunity
[C16: from Spanish, literally: the gilded (place)]
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El Do•ra•do

(ˌɛl dəˈrɑ doʊ, -ˈreɪ-)
n.
1. a legendary city of South America sought by the early Spanish explorers for its treasure, esp. gold.
2. any place offering great wealth.
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El Dorado

- A place offering fabulous wealth or opportunity (after the legendary place in South America, "the gilded one").
See also related terms for opportunity.
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Noun 1. [画像:El Dorado - an imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity]El Dorado - an imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity; sought in South America by 16th-century explorers
fictitious place, imaginary place, mythical place - a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings
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Translations

El Dorado

, eldorado
n pl <-dos> → (El)dorado nt, → Paradies nt (fig)
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Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado.
But he grew old - This knight so bold - And o'er his heart a shadow Fell, as he found No spot of ground That looked like Eldorado.
The one least fancied was Eldorado, which flowed into Bonanza, just above Karmack's Discovery claim.
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It was brought about by a conversation in the Eldorado Saloon, in which men waxed boastful of their favorite dogs.
The Eldorado emptied its occupants into the street to see the test.
This time he sailed to Guiana in South America, in search of Eldorado, the fabled city of gold.
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Here is an Eldorado for the scientists of the future, and whoever can first map it out will go far toward discovering the secret of telephony.
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It consisted partly of a gold mine in Eldorado, and of ten thousand shares in a broken bubble, and of half a million acres of vineyard at the North Pole, and of a castle in the air, and a chateau in Spain, together with all the rents and income therefrom accruing.
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You can't get over seventeen for Eldorado gold, and Minook gold don't fetch quite eighteen.
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Bonanza and Eldorado Kings, with money to burn, were leaving for the Outside because they could buy no grub.
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We travel up Klondike, up Bonanza and Eldorado, over to Indian River, to Sulphur Creek, to Dominion, back across divide to Gold Bottom and to Too Much Gold, and back to Dawson.
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"this devoted band called itself the Eldorado Ex- ploring Expedition, and I believe they were sworn to secrecy.
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