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CO

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in west central United States in the Rocky Mountains

Synonyms:

Centennial State; CO; Colo.; Colorado

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "CO"):

South Platte; South Platte River (a tributary of the Platte River)

Mount Sherman; Sherman (a peak in the Rocky Mountains in central Colorado (14,036 feet high))

San Juan Mountains (a mountain range in southwestern Colorado that is part of the Rocky Mountains)

Republican; Republican River (a tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas)

Pike's Peak (a mountain peak in the Rockies in central Colorado (14,109 feet high))

North Platte; North Platte River (a river that rises in northern Colorado and flows northward into Wyoming and then eastward and southeastward through Nebraska where it joins the South Platte to form the Platte River)

Colorado Plateau (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)

Colorado; Colorado River (an important river in the southwestern United States; rises in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado and flows southwest through Utah into Arizona (where it flows through the Grand Canyon) and then southward through the southern tip of Nevada, then forming the border between California and Arizona and finally into Mexico where it empties into the Gulf of California; the main source of water in the southwestern United States)

Arkansas; Arkansas River (a river that rises in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and flows southeast through Kansas and Oklahoma and through Arkansas to become a tributary of the Mississippi River)

Pueblo (a city in Colorado to the south of Colorado Springs)

capital of Colorado; Denver; Mile-High City (the state capital and largest city of Colorado; located in central Colorado on the South Platte river)

Colorado Springs (a city in east central Colorado on the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains; popular tourist center and site of the United States Air Force Academy)

Boulder (a town in north central Colorado; Rocky Mountains resort center and university town)

Rocky Mountain National Park (a national park in Colorado having mountains and lakes and streams and forests)

Mesa Verde National Park (a national park in Colorado containing prehistoric cliff dwellings; semiarid landscape)

Holonyms ("CO" is a part of...):

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

Sense 2

Meaning:

One who refuses to serve in the armed forces on grounds of conscience

Synonyms:

CO; conscientious objector

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("CO" is a kind of...):

contestant; dissenter; dissident; objector; protester (a person who dissents from some established policy)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition

Synonyms:

atomic number 27; Co; cobalt

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("Co" is a kind of...):

metal; metallic element (any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Co"):

cobalt 60 (a radioactive isotope of cobalt with mass number 60; a source of exceptionally intense gamma rays; used in radiation therapy)

Holonyms ("Co" is a substance of...):

cobaltite (a rare silvery-white mineral; important ore of cobalt)

smaltite (a grey mineral consisting of cobalt arsenide and nickel; an important source of cobalt and nickel)

Sense 4

Meaning:

An odorless very poisonous gas that is a product of incomplete combustion of carbon

Synonyms:

carbon monoxide; carbon monoxide gas; CO

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("CO" is a kind of...):

monoxide (an oxide containing just one atom of oxygen in the molecule)

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