COLORADO PLATEAU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Colorado Plateau mean? 

• COLORADO PLATEAU (noun)
  The noun COLORADO PLATEAU has 1 sense:

1. a large plateau to the south and west of the Rocky Mountains; abuts mountains on the north and east and ends in an escarpment overlooking lowlands to the south and west; the Grand Canyon is carved out of the southwestern corner

  Familiarity information: COLORADO PLATEAU used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLORADO PLATEAU (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large plateau to the south and west of the Rocky Mountains; abuts mountains on the north and east and ends in an escarpment overlooking lowlands to the south and west; the Grand Canyon is carved out of the southwestern corner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

plateau; tableland (a relatively flat highland)

Meronyms (parts of "Colorado Plateau"):

Grand Canyon (the enormous gorge of the Colorado River in northern Arizona)

Holonyms ("Colorado Plateau" is a part of...):

Arizona; AZ; Grand Canyon State (a state in southwestern United States; site of the Grand Canyon)

Centennial State; CO; Colo.; Colorado (a state in west central United States in the Rocky Mountains)

Land of Enchantment; N.M.; New Mexico; NM (a state in southwestern United States on the Mexican border)

Beehive State; Mormon State; UT; Ut.; Utah (a state in the western United States; settled in 1847 by Mormons led by Brigham Young)