gold

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

Nouns

  • (n) coins made of gold
  • (n) a deep yellow color
    • an amber light illuminated the room
    • he admired the gold of her hair
    amber,
  • (n) 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 atomic number 79, Au,
  • (n) great wealth
    • "Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, and almost every vice--almighty gold"--Ben Jonson
  • (n) 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

Synonyms

golden gilded gilt aureate amber atomic number 79 Au

Words of close approximity

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