a city in the US, in Florida: site of Walt Disney World. Pop: 199 336 (2003 est)
Word Origin and History for Orlando
masc. proper name, Italian form of Roland (q.v.). The city in Florida, U.S., so called from 1857, supposedly in honor of a U.S. soldier, Orlando Reeves, who was killed there in 1835 by Seminoles. It had been settled c.1844 as Jernigan.