golden
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1.0
- adjective
- /ˈɡoʊldən/
- A girl could not be a star without a halo of golden hair.
- golden yellow
- golden light
- golden glow
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Examples
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Oh, I can see her now, with the golden rays of the setting sun lighting up her sweet old face.
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I mean like look how golden that is.
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Maybe just a little bit too golden for me, but not bad.
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I just wanted a little bit of like a golden base to my skin.
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The grass around them had turned golden in the late summer sun.
Academic text (1990) -
So overall you get a light golden champagne look.
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The light at the end of the tunnel has expanded into a golden sunrise.
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The lobby has the same golden ambiance as when we first saw it.
Fiction book (1991) -
In October, the rice fields are golden; the grains are fat, heavy, and ready to be harvested.
Academic text (2006) -
The sunset painted the sky in a beautiful golden hue as day turned to night.
Synonyms
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Made from a soft yellow metal or showing that yellow color
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3.2
A deep yellow-brown color like honey
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3.2
A warm brown color that has a golden shine
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3.1
Having a brownish-gold metal color
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6.8
Having a deep golden color like real gold
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2.4
To have a shiny yellow color like gold
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2.8
A color that is yellowish brown like honey
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3.3
A warm yellow color like gold
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2.8
A medium to dark brown with a little yellow in it
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2.0
A brownish yellow color like dry autumn leaves
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6.9
Having a shiny brown or gold color like an old coin
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3.2
A color between brown and yellow
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5.7
A dark yellow color with a little brown tone
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5.7
Has a deep warm gold color
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3.8
Having a light gold color or shine
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9.9
Having a deep golden color like gold
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4.3
Having a warm golden yellow color like sunlight
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8.5
Having a golden color or made of gold
A bright yellow color with a golden tone like sunlight
Antonyms
Idioms
To destroy a steady source of income by greedy short-term choices
- Informal
Not speaking is often better than saying things you do not need to say
Compounds
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A large bright red suspension bridge in San Francisco that crosses the entrance to the bay
- Literature
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3.3
A professional NBA basketball team from California called the Warriors
- Specialized
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6.8
A large payment to a top manager when they leave after a takeover
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3.7
A large bird of prey with a golden-brown head and neck that lives in northern mountains
- Specialized
1
7.5
A special way to divide a line or shape so the parts follow a fixed proportion often used in art
- Specialized
1
9.0
A plant with long narrow leaves and bright orange-yellow flowers that grows in dry open places in California
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5.5
Money that a company pays an employee when they leave, often to encourage early retirement
- Specialized
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8.1
A special ratio where the small part to the big part equals the big part to the whole
The 50th anniversary of a marriage, celebrated as a major milestone
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3.9
A period of public holidays in Japan in late April and early May when many people travel
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7.9
A brightly colored bird with feathers on its head whose male has red and gold feathers
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9.1
A low plant that lives for many years in woods with three-part leaves, yellow roots and white flowers
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7.4
A small tree with hanging clusters of yellow flowers often used in gardens and for Easter decorations
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9.9
A Mongol army that invaded and ruled parts of eastern Europe and Russia in the 1200s and 1300s
- South African
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9.2
A small animal from southern Africa that lives underground and has shiny fur
- Specialized
1
9.9
A plant from California with grasslike leaves and bright orange flowers
- Specialized
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8.9
A garden plant with bright yellow daisy-like flowers that lives many years
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7.9
A climbing evergreen plant with shiny leaves and large yellow flowers used in gardens
- Specialized
1
6.9
Very small living things in water that look golden because of their colored parts
- Specialized
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9.6
A low plant that grows in wet places with small yellow-green flowers
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7.5
A large round cactus with golden spines and pale yellow flowers often grown in gardens
- Australian
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8.0
A small Australian tree with bright yellow, fragrant flowers often grown in gardens
- US
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9.9
A plant from Mexico with bright yellow cup-shaped flowers and blue-grey divided leaves
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9.6
A North American plant that stays green all year and has small yellow flowers
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7.5
A bright yellow songbird with black wings that lives in Europe and North Africa
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8.5
A plant that lives for many years with grey woolly leaves and golden-yellow flowers
- Specialized
1
9.6
A small low plant with short leafy stems and small round yellow orange flowers
How Golden
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Golden comes from the old word gold, the shiny yellow metal, so it also means the deep yellow color of gold, which is why we call a warm sunset 'golden'.