Denver vs Colorado

Denver and Colorado both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Denver	Yes	No	No	No
Colorado	Yes	No	No	No

Denver (noun)	Colorado (noun)
the state capital and largest city of Colorado; located in central Colorado on the South Platte river	a state in west central United States in the Rocky Mountains
	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
	a river in Texas; flows southeast into the Gulf of Mexico