name · noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Received-Pronunciation:/ˈɛk.wə.dɔː/
British, Southern, Standard:/ˈɛk.wə.doː/
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US:/ˈɛk.wə.dɔɹ/
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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