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Ecuador

name · noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɛk.wə.dɔː/
  • British, Southern, Standard: /ˈɛk.wə.doː/
  • SSB Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: /ˈɛk.wə.dɔɹ/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈek.wə.doː/
  • Scotland: /ˈɛk.wə.dɔɾ/
  • CMU ARPABET: EH1 K W AH0 D AO2 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Ecuador. Capital: Quito.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a republic in northwestern South America; became independent from Spain in 1822; the landscape is dominated by the Andes

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Republic of Ecuador

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: South American country, South American nation

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Ecuador, itself from ecuador (“equator”).

Across languages

Translations

105 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Abkhaz: Екәадор (Ekwʼador) — country in South America
  • Afrikaans: Ecuador — country in South America
  • Albanian: Ekuador — country in South America
  • Albanian: Ekuadori — country in South America
  • Amharic: ኤክዋዶር (ʾekwador) — country in South America
  • Arabic: إِكْوَادُور (ʔekwadōr) — country in South America
  • Arabic: الإِكْوَادُور (al-ʔekwadōr) — country in South America
  • Arabic: الإكوادور (al-ʔikwādōr) — country in South America
  • Armenian: Էկվադոր (Ēkvador) — country in South America
  • Asturian: Ecuador — country in South America
  • Asturian: L'Ecuador — country in South America
  • Azerbaijani: Ekvador — country in South America
  • Basque: Ekuador — country in South America
  • Belarusian: Эквадо́р (Ekvadór) — country in South America
  • Bengali: ইকুয়েডর (ikuẏeḍor) — country in South America
  • Breton: Ecuador — country in South America
  • Bulgarian: Еквадо́р (Ekvadór) — country in South America
  • Burmese: အီကွေဒေါ (i-kwedau:) — country in South America
  • Catalan: Equador — country in South America
  • Chinese Cantonese: 厄瓜多爾 /厄瓜多尔 (aak1 gwaa1 do1 ji5) — country in South America
  • Chinese Mandarin: 厄瓜多爾 /厄瓜多尔 (Èguāduō'ěr) — country in South America
  • Chinese Mandarin: 厄瓜多 (Èguāduō) — country in South America
  • Czech: Ekvádor — country in South America
  • Danish: Ecuador — country in South America
  • Dhivehi: އިކުއެޑޯރު (ikueḍōru) — country in South America
  • Dutch: Ecuador — country in South America
  • Esperanto: Ekvadoro — country in South America
  • Estonian: Ecuador — country in South America
  • Faroese: Ekvador — country in South America
  • Finnish: Ecuador — country in South America
  • French: Équateur — country in South America
  • Galician: Ecuador — country in South America
  • Georgian: ეკვადორი (eḳvadori) — country in South America
  • German: Ecuador — country in South America
  • Greek: Ισημερινός (Isimerinós) — country in South America
  • Greek: Εκουαδόρ (Ekouadór) — country in South America
  • Hebrew: אקוודור — country in South America
  • Hebrew: אֶקְוָדוֹר (ekvadór) — country in South America
  • Hindi: इक्वाडोर (ikvāḍor) — country in South America
  • Hindi: इक्वेडोर (ikveḍor) — country in South America
  • Hindi: एक्वाडोर (ekvāḍor) — country in South America
  • Hindi: ईक्वाडोर (īkvāḍor) — country in South America
  • Hungarian: Ecuador — country in South America
  • Icelandic: Ekvador — country in South America
  • Ido: Equador — country in South America
  • Indonesian: Ekuador — country in South America
  • Interlingua: Ecuador — country in South America
  • Irish: Eacuadór — country in South America
  • Italian: Ecuador — country in South America
  • Japanese: エクアドル (Ekuadoru) — country in South America
  • Kazakh: Эквадор (Ékvador) — country in South America
  • Khmer: អេក្វាទ័រ (ʼeekvaatɔə) — country in South America
  • Korean: 에콰도르 (Ekwadoreu) — country in South America
  • Korean: 에꽈도르 (Ekkwadoreu) — country in South America
  • Northern Kurdish: Ekuador — country in South America
  • Kyrgyz: Эквадор (Ekvador) — country in South America
  • Lao: ເອກົວເຕີ (ʼē kūa tœ̄) — country in South America
  • Latvian: Ekvadora — country in South America
  • Lithuanian: Ekvadoras — country in South America
  • Macedonian: Еквадо́р (Ekvadór) — country in South America
  • Malagasy: Ekoatera — country in South America
  • Malay: Ecuador — country in South America
  • Maltese: Ekwador — country in South America
  • Māori: Ekuatoa — country in South America
  • Mongolian: Эквадор (Ekvador) — country in South America
  • Navajo: Kéyah Nahasdzáán Ałníiʼgi Siʼánígíí — country in South America
  • Nepali: इक्वेडोर (ikveḍor) — country in South America
  • Norman: Êquateur — country in South America
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Ecuador — country in South America
  • Occitan: Equator — country in South America
  • Occitan: Eqüator — country in South America
  • Ossetian: Эквадор (Èkvador) — country in South America
  • Pashto: اېکوادور (ekwādor) — country in South America
  • Pashto: اکوادور (ekwādor) — country in South America
  • Persian: اکوادور (ekvâdor) — country in South America
  • Polish: Ekwador — country in South America
  • Portuguese: Equador — country in South America
  • Quechua: Ikwadur — country in South America
  • Romanian: Ecuador — country in South America
  • Russian: Эквадо́р (Ekvadór) — country in South America
  • Sanskrit: एक्वाडोर (ekvāḍora) — country in South America
  • Serbo-Croatian: Ѐква̄дор — country in South America
  • Serbo-Croatian: Èkvādor — country in South America
  • Sinhalese: ඉක්වදෝරය (ikwadōraya) — country in South America
  • Slovak: Ekvádor — country in South America
  • Slovene: Ekvador — country in South America
  • Spanish: Ecuador — country in South America
  • Sranan Tongo: Ekwador — country in South America
  • Swahili: Ecuador — country in South America
  • Swedish: Ecuador — country in South America
  • Tagalog: Ekwador — country in South America
  • Tajik: Экуадор (Ekuador) — country in South America
  • Tatar: Эквадор (Ekwador) — country in South America
  • Thai: เอกวาดอร์ (ee-gwaa-dɔɔ) — country in South America
  • Tibetan: ཨེ་ཁོའོ་ཌོར (e kho'o ḍor) — country in South America
  • Tigrinya: ኤኳዶር (ʾekwador) — country in South America
  • Turkish: Ekvador — country in South America
  • Turkmen: Ekwador — country in South America
  • Ukrainian: Еквадо́р (Ekvadór) — country in South America
  • Urdu: ایکواڈور (īkvāḍor, ekvāḍor) — country in South America
  • Uyghur: ئېكۋادور (ëkwador) — country in South America
  • Uzbek: Ekvador — country in South America
  • Vietnamese: Ê-cu-a-đo — country in South America
  • Volapük: Lekvadorän — country in South America
  • Yiddish: עקוואַדאָר (ekvador) — country in South America
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