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gold

gold

330 1.0
A very valuable quality or thing, often used about people
  • noun
  • /ɡoʊld/
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  • They're just taking every opportunity here and spinning it into pure gold.
  • the gold standard
  • the gold standard technique

Consequently, they say Bitcoin is less digital gold and more digital beef.

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Examples

  • As usual, he challenged himself to go for the gold and applied to the California Institute of the Arts.

    Academic text (2013)
  • He's like that big pot of gold I've always dreamed of.

  • "That part of you more precious than gold this will protect from catching cold."

  • I had literally found an educational gold mine in God's most beautiful skies.

    Academic text (1990)
  • May you, the graduates, find the gold that does not glitter.

  • But gold is honorable... and Lawrence promised gold.

  • No doubt the image of America as a land of gold was appealing to all young Irish emigrants.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Evie was to have a gold locket she never knew her mother owned.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • "'Much have I travelled in the realms of gold," he said, "'and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • The jeweler crafted a stunning necklace out of gold that gleamed in the sunlight.

Synonyms

jewel
vsgold
79 3.5

A person who is loved or admired for special qualities

refers to a general precious or superior thing or quality

Antonyms

298 3.0

Has no value or use

common
  • Offensive
182 5.7

Low quality and often rude in style

63 3.7

Not as good in quality as something else

Idioms

heart of gold
  • Informal
17 2.9

A person who is very kind and generous

To try very hard to win first place in a competition

1 7.7

Very rare and hard to get

To pay someone for a service, especially to have them tell your future

A chance to make money in a place or situation

Compounds

114 1.1

A medal made of gold that a winner gets in competitions, often in sports

gold mine
  • Informal
21 3.2

A source of many useful things like information or money

19 6.1

A woman who starts relationships with men mainly to get money or gifts

15 3.9

The best and most trusted example that people use to judge other things

gold standard
  • Specialized
12 5.1

A system where people can exchange a country's money for gold

9 3.3

A place where people dig to find gold

6 3.6

A sudden time when many people start a new business to try to get rich

6 4.3

Very thin sheets of gold used to decorate objects and food

6 3.0

A time when many people go quickly to a place to look for gold

6 2.7

Metal that is only gold with nothing else in it

5 4.1

A pale, silver-coloured metal that people make by mixing gold with other metals for jewellery

pot of gold
  • Informal
5 4.1

A reward that someone hopes to get but finds hard to reach

fool's gold
  • Specialized
4 4.9

A shiny yellow rock or thing that looks like gold but is worthless

4 4.2

Small pieces of gold that you find in rivers or the ground

3 3.1

A person who digs or pans for gold

24-karat gold
  • Specialized
2 3.0

Pure gold containing no other metals

liquid gold
  • Informal
2 5.6

A valuable liquid like oil or honey

1 4.6

A valuable black oil that countries sell for money

18-karat gold
  • Specialized
1 3.0

A metal with 75 percent pure gold used in jewelry

1 5.5

A strong excitement and greed to find gold during a gold rush

1 2.4

To have a shiny yellow color like gold

comedy gold
  • Informal
1 5.1

A joke or moment in a show that people find very funny and memorable

1 5.3

A cord of shiny gold thread used to decorate clothes or curtains

1 6.3

A wealthy area by the coast with large, expensive houses

1 5.3

A person who digs or pans for gold at a mine

1 3.9

A piece of tableware or object of ordinary metal covered with a thin layer of gold

gold foil
  • Specialized
1 3.9

Very thin sheets of gold used to decorate things like frames and art

1 7.1

The former name of the country now called Ghana when it was a British colony

22-karat gold
  • Specialized
1 3.1

A metal made of about 87 percent gold used for jewelry

gold plate
  • Specialized
1 3.9

A thin layer of gold put on the surface of another material for decoration or protection

A large North American spider with black and yellow markings often found in gardens

dental gold
  • Specialized
4.2

A mix of gold and other metals dentists use for fillings and crowns because it lasts a long time

9.3

A strong, popular type of marijuana first grown near Acapulco, Mexico

alpine gold
  • Specialized
9.3

A low plant with small bright yellow flowers that grows on rocky mountain slopes

mosaic gold
  • Specialized
9.9

A bright yellow powder used to make art and frames look like gold

An annual plant with small yellow flowers grown for oil-rich seeds and fiber

gold alloy
  • Specialized
3.5

A mix of gold and other metals made to be stronger or change color

9.9

A fern from the West Indies and South America with bright yellow undersides on its fronds

A person who washes soil and small stones in a pan to find gold

A person who hammers gold into very thin sheets to cover objects

gold telluride
  • Specialized
8.9

A mineral made of gold combined with tellurium found in gold deposits

A very small North American bird with a bright golden crown on its head

A small flying insect with a white furry body and a yellow tuft at the tail

A person who makes jewelry and other things from gold

green gold
  • Specialized
7.1

A mixture of gold and silver that has a slight green color

guinea gold vine
  • Australian
9.9

A climbing plant that stays green all year with large bright yellow flowers

guinea gold
  • Archaic
9.9

A 22-karat yellow gold used to make old British coins

guinea gold
  • Archaic
9.4

A reddish brass metal often used for cheap jewelry and fittings

hidden gold mine
  • Informal
6.0

A place or thing that has valuable information not easy to find

5.7

A dark yellow color with a little brown tone

paper gold
  • Specialized
8.9

Money the IMF creates to help member countries keep their currencies stable without physical gold

paper gold
  • Specialized
7.8

Financial products that let people invest in gold without holding physical gold

How High

platinum
  • Specialized
96 4.2
gold
330 1.0
silver
36 1.8
bronze
  • Jargon
37 3.4

Surface Forms

gold singular
golds plural

Etymology

Gold comes from an old German word meaning 'yellow' or 'shining', a meaning you also find in simple words like yellow and glow. Because the metal is rare and beautiful, gold later came to mean something very precious or excellent.