Cimarron
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- proper noun
- /ˈsɪməˌrɒn/
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Cimarrón
- During our trip, we camped by the Cimarron River and enjoyed fishing in its clear waters.
- Cimarron River
Examples
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What remains of Davis's diary ends with the group happily arriving in Cimarron ready to purchase farm implements.
Academic text (2006) -
Cimarron, Kansas, to be specific.
Fiction book (1997) -
I know who you are now, and I know why you quit the Cimarron country too.
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"His sister asked me to give him a ride down to Cimarron.
Fiction book (2000) -
Photo courtesy of the Old Mill Museum, Cimarron, New Mexico.
Blog text (4) -
Putting the boneyard behind us, we pressed on, crossing the Cimarron Trail, then the forks of the river itself, entering Indian Territory.
Fiction book (1995) -
The Hebrew Union Agricultural Society of Cincinnati sent a group west to Cimarron, in southwestern Kansas, later the heart of the Dust Bowl and an agricultural heartbreaker.
Academic text (2006) -
Every Fourth of July (and some days in between), my family picks up and drives to Cimarron—three hours west of our hometown, Wichita, Kansas.
Fiction book (1997) -
It looks like it will now come out of Denver, head directly south via Pueblo, skirt the eastern side of the Sangre de Cristos through Cimarron and then southwest to Santa Fe.
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The Cimarron River winds through the landscape, offering beautiful views of the surrounding mountains.
Synonyms
A river that begins in northeast New Mexico and flows east through Oklahoma into the Arkansas River
Compounds
A river that begins in northeast New Mexico and flows east through Oklahoma into the Arkansas River
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cimarron comes from the Spanish cimarrón, meaning 'wild' or 'untamed', a word once used for animals or people who ran away. That's why a fast, twisting river could be named Cimarron — the name makes you think of a river that behaves like something wild and free.