El Dorado

See also: eldorado, and Eldorado

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish The golden one

Proper noun

El Dorado

1. A Muisca tribal chief who covered himself in gold dust
2. A legendary lost city of gold
3. Thus, any place of fabulous wealth

Derived terms

• El Dorado County

Translations

a Muisca tribal chief who covered himself in gold dust

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a legendary lost city of gold

• Portuguese: El Dorado m, El Dourado m
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any place of fabulous wealth

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• El Dourado

Proper noun

El Dorado m

1. (early modern European folklore) El Dorado (a legendary lost city of gold in the Americas)