gold

Plural: gold, golds

Noun

• A precious, malleable yellow metallic element, valued for its rarity.
• coins made of gold
• a deep yellow color
  • "he admired the gold of her hair"
• a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia
• great wealth; --Ben Jonson
  • "Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, and almost every vice--almighty gold"
• something likened to the metal in brightness or preciousness or superiority etc.
  • "the child was as good as gold"
  • "she has a heart of gold"
• A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au.
• A coin or coinage made of this material, or supposedly so.
• A deep yellow colour, resembling the metal gold.
• The bullseye of an archery target.
• A gold medal.
• Anything or anyone that is very valuable.
• A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth) made of gold.

Adjective Satellite

• made from or covered with gold
  • "gold coins"
  • "the gold dome of the Capitol"
  • "the golden calf"
• having the deep slightly brownish color of gold
  • "long aureate (or golden) hair"
  • "a gold carpet"

Symbol

• ☉ (alchemy)

Adj

• Made of gold.
• Having the colour of gold.
• Premium, superior.
• Of a musical recording: having sold 500,000 copies.
• Subject to or involving a model of open access in which a published article is immediately available for to read for free with no embargo period.
• In a finished state, ready for manufacturing.

Verb

• To appear or cause to appear golden.

Adv

• of or referring to a gold version of something

Adjective

• Having the color or appearance of gold; golden.

Examples

• a gold chain
• Daniel hit the gold to win the contest.
• France has won three golds and five silvers.
• gold socks
• gold sticker
• That food mixer you gave me is absolute gold, mate!
• That ’Z’ on a triple letter square was as good as GOLD in Words With Friends.
• The GOLD shimmer of a winning move was evident as he placed his tiles in Scrabble.
• The pirates were searching for gold.

Synonyms

amber, atomic number 79, Au, aureate, gilded, gilt, golden, E175 when used as a food colouring, aurum, good as gold

Related Words

Midas, arsenic, auramine, aurata, aurate, aurated, aureate, aureation, aureity, aurelia, aurelian, aureola, aureole, aureoled, aureolin, aureoline, aureomycin, aureus, aurian, auric, auricomous, auride, auriferous, aurifex, aurific, aurification, aurify, aurigraphy, aurin, auriphrygiate, aurivorous, auro-, aurous, aurulent, aurum, chryselephantine, chryso-, gild, gilded, gilt, goldwasser, kincob, lavatory, or, ormolu, oroide, orphrey, orpiment, philosopher’s stone, zari

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