eldorado


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Noun1.eldorado - an imaginary place of great wealth and opportunityeldorado - 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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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.
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.
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.
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.
You can't get over seventeen for Eldorado gold, and Minook gold don't fetch quite eighteen.
Bonanza and Eldorado Kings, with money to burn, were leaving for the Outside because they could buy no grub.
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.
"this devoted band called itself the Eldorado Ex- ploring Expedition, and I believe they were sworn to secrecy.