gold
English
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Alternative forms
Pronunciation
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Audio (UK): (file)
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Audio (US): (file)
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- Rhymes: -əʊld
Etymology 1
From Middle English gold, from Old English gold (“gold”), from Proto-West Germanic *golþ, from Proto-Germanic *gulþą (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰl̥tóm (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“yellow; gleam; to shine”). Related to yellow; see there for more.
Germanic cognates include Dutch goud, German Gold, Norwegian gull, Swedish guld, and cognates from other Indo-European languages are Latvian zelts, Russian зо́лото (zóloto), Persian زرد (zard, “yellow, golden”), Sanskrit हिरण्य (hiraṇya).
Noun
gold (countable and uncountable, plural golds)
- (uncountable) A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au.
- (countable or uncountable) A coin or coinage made of this material, or supposedly so.
- The pirates were searching for gold.
- (uncountable) A deep yellow colour, resembling the metal gold.
- gold:
- metallic gold:
- (countable) The bullseye of an archery target.
- Daniel hit the gold to win the contest.
- (countable) A gold medal.
- France has won three golds and five silvers.
- (figuratively) Anything or anyone that is very valuable.
- That food mixer you gave me is absolute gold, mate!
- 2010, Paul Hendy, Who Killed Simon Peters?:
- Now obviously this meant that I went over my allotted time, but the theatre management didn't mind because I was giving them comedy gold and that's what gets bums on seats.
- 2012, Victor Pemberton, Leo's Girl:
- Marge Quincey didn't deserve a husband like his dad. He was pure gold, and she wasn't worth a light beside him.
- (slang, in the plural) A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth) made of gold.
Symbol
- ☉ (alchemy)
Synonyms
- aurum
- E175 when used as a food colouring
Derived terms
- all that glisters is not gold, all that glitters is not gold
- argental gold
- basket-of-gold(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace
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- blue gold
- cloth of gold
- colloidal gold
- colored gold, coloured gold
- comedy gold
- dead gold
- dentist gold
- ducat gold
- eka-gold
- Etruscan gold
- fairy gold
- filled gold
- fool's gold
- go for the gold
- go gold
- gold album
- gold-amalgam
- gold-balls
- gold-bank
- gold basket
- Gold Beach
- gold-beater, goldbeater
- gold-beating
- gold bee
- gold beetle (in families Chrysomelidae and Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- gold beryl
- gold blocking
- gold-bob
- gold bond
- gold-book
- gold braid
- gold-breasted trumpeter (Psophia crepitans)
- gold-bricker
- gold brick, gold-brick, goldbrick
- gold-bricking
- gold bug
- gold bullion
- gold bullion standard
- gold-capped weaver bird (Ploceus spp.)
- gold-carp (Carassius auratus)
- gold certificate
- gold-chain
- gold chalcogenide
- gold chloride
- gold clause
- gold cloth
- gold-color, gold-colour
- gold-copper ore
- gold-crested wren (Regulus regulus)
- goldcrest (Regulus regulus)
- gold-cups
- gold currency
- gold-dig
- gold digger
- gold-digging
- gold disc, gold disk
- gold-dredge, gold-dredger
- gold-dredging
- gold-driver
- gold-drop
- gold-dropper
- gold dust
- gold-dusty
- golden
- gold exchange
- gold farmer
- gold farming
- gold-fever, gold fever
- goldfielder
- gold-field, goldfield
- gold-filled
- gold-film, gold-film glass
- goldfinch (Carduelis spp.)
- gold-finder
- goldfinny (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template. and Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- goldfish (Carassius auratus)
- Gold Fixing
- gold flat
- gold-flower
- gold-flux
- gold foil, gold-foil
- gold-fringe
- gold halide
- gold-hammer
- gold-head
- gold-heart
- gold-hunger
- gold hydrazide
- goldilocks, Goldilocks
- goldish
- goldite
- gold-knap, gold-knop, gold-knops
- gold-laced
- gold leaf, gold-leaf
- goldless
- gold-like
- gold-lily
- gold-lip
- gold medal
- gold medalist/gold medallist
- gold-mill
- gold mine, goldmine
- gold miner, goldminer
- gold-mining
- gold-mohr, gold-mohur
- gold moth (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template. spp.)
- gold-mouthed
- gold name
- gold-note
- gold of Bruges
- gold of Genoa
- gold of pleasure
- gold of Venice
- gold-pan
- gold pentafluoride
- gold-plated
- gold plate, gold-plate
- gold-plating
- gold point
- gold-powder
- gold-purple
- gold-quartz
- gold-rain
- gold record
- gold reserve
- gold robin (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- gold rush, gold-rush
- gold salt
- gold-sand
- gold-shell
- gold-shrub
- goldsinny (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template. and Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- gold-size
- gold-skin
- goldsmith
- goldsmithery
- gold-solder
- gold sovereign
- gold-spangle
- goldspink (Carduelis carduelis)
- gold-spot
- gold standard
- gold star
- gold star family
- gold star father
- gold star gay
- gold star lesbian
- gold star mother
- gold star parent
- gold star wife
- gold stick, gold-stick
- gold-stone, goldstone
- gold swift (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- gold-tail, gold-tail moth (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- gold telluride
- gold therapy
- gold-thirst
- gold-thread, goldthread
- gold-tipped
- gold tooth
- gold top
- gold trichloride
- gold value
- gold-washed
- gold-washer
- gold window
- gold-work, gold-works
- goldy
- good as gold
- green gold
- heart of gold
- Horus of Gold name
- jeweler's gold, jeweller's gold
- Kolar Gold Fields
- leprous gold
- liquid gold
- make a gold
- Mannheim gold
- mock gold
- mosaic gold
- old gold
- pink gold
- potable gold
- red gold
- rhodium-gold
- rolled gold
- rose gold
- shell gold
- spangle gold
- strike gold
- telluric gold
- telluride of gold and silver
- white gold
Related terms
Translations
See also
- (place to pan for gold): lavatory
Adjective
gold (not generally comparable, comparative golder, superlative goldest)
- Made of gold.
- a gold chain
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. […] A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.
- Having the colour of gold.
- gold sticker
- gold socks
- 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings:
- Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess[1]:
- Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.
- (of commercial services) Premium, superior.
- Of a musical recording: having sold 500,000 copies.
- Coordinate term: platinum
- 2000, Billboard (volume 112, number 20, page 52)
- The album went gold, then platinum, thanks to a second hit single, "It's A Miracle".
Translations
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Synonyms
- (made of gold, having the colour of gold): golden
Verb
gold (third-person singular simple present golds, present participle golding, simple past and past participle golded)
- To appear or cause to appear golden.
- 2010, Tanuja Desai Hidier, Born Confused:
- I caught sight of something that seemed the nexus of all that glittered, all that golded: like a hallucination in the traffic's rotary heart, a saried creature giddily swirling her own razored rainbow roundabout, mirrored fabric sending light spinning like saberlike amidst the smoking, choking cars.
- 2011, Harry Nicholson, Tom Fleck, page 250:
- You are the sun at Noon, that golds the barley, and pulls the bee to the ling on the moor.
- 2011, D G Compton, A Usual Lunacy:
- Worked wonders, knowing a thing like that. Golded up your hair, even, for all your record said indeterminate. Golded up the whole world, really.
- 2011, Robert M. Ellis, “Pokhara Lake”, in North Cape: Selected Poems of a Poet Turned Philosopher, page 21:
- But I work still, a dead, unheeding man across the endless interface: wishing I was the sun who golds the lake or the lake, comprehending sun.
- 2021, Edward Elmer Smith, The Imperial Stars:
- Hair down to my shoulders; waved and liquid-golded. Eyebrows shaved to a different shape and golded. Handle-bar mustache, waxed to points and golded.
See also
- 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-
- kincob
- Midas
- or
- ormolu
- oroide
- orphrey
- orpiment
- philosopher’s stone
- zari
- Appendix:Colors
Etymology 2
From gold master, a copy of the code certified as being ready for release.
Adjective
gold (not comparable)
- (programming, of software) In a finished state, ready for manufacturing.
- 2004 November, “Half-Life 2 goes gold”, in HWM, page 10:
- The Company confirmed that Half-Life 2, developed by Valve Software, has gone gold with a planned retail street date of November 16, 2004.
- 2011, Jordan Gray, Unearthed, page 6:
- He felt bone-tired and twitchy, the way he did in the final stages of putting a video-game project together, almost ready to go gold and turn a new game loose on the public.
- 2011, Jessica Mulligan and Bridgette Patrovsky, quoting Damion Schubert, Developing Online Games: An Insider's Guide, page 221:
- I had coded guilds into M59 over the weekend, shortly before we were supposed to go gold.
Adverb
gold (not comparable)
- of or referring to a gold version of something
Further reading
- David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Gold”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
- Mindat.org[2], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.
Cebuano
Etymology
Borrowed from English gold, from Middle English gold, from Old English gold (“gold”), from Proto-Germanic *gulþą (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰl̥tóm (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“yellow; gleam; to shine”).
Noun
gold
- 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 bright yellow colour, resembling the metal gold
- a gold medal
- (fantasy roleplaying games board games) miscellaneous unit of currency in fantasy genre
Adjective
gold
- having the colour of gold
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:gold.
Cimbrian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle High German golt, from Old High German gold, from Proto-West Germanic *golþ, from Proto-Germanic *gulþą (“gold”). Cognate with German Gold, English gold.
Noun
gold n
References
- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Danish
Etymology
Probably from or related to Old Norse geldr (“barren, yielding no milk”), from Proto-Germanic *galdaz, *galdijaz (“barren, unfruitful”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to shout, cry”).
See also Swedish gall (“barren”), German galt, gelt (“yielding no milk, unfruitful”), Old Norse gelda (“to castrate”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
gold
- barren, desolate
- sterile (unable to reproduce)
- dry, (of a cow) not producing milk
- En gold ko.
- A dry cow.
- En gold ko.
Inflection
Inflection of gold | |||
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Positive | Comparative | Superlative | |
Indefinte common singular | gold | goldere | goldest2 |
Indefinite neuter singular | goldt | goldere | goldest2 |
Plural | golde | goldere | goldest2 |
Definite attributive1 | golde | goldere | goldeste |
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively. |
Derived terms
- goldhed ("barrenness, sterility")
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Verb
gold
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English gold (“gold”), from Proto-West Germanic *golþ, from Proto-Germanic *gulþą (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰl̥tóm (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“yellow; gleam; to shine”).
Pronunciation
Noun
gold (plural golds)
- gold (metal)
Derived terms
Descendants
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
Adjective
gold (indefinite singular gold, definite singular and plural golde, comparative goldare, indefinite superlative goldast, definite superlative goldaste)
References
- “gold” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *golþ, from Proto-Germanic *gulþą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰĺ̥tom.
Pronunciation
Noun
gold n
Declension
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | gold | — |
accusative | gold | — |
genitive | goldes | — |
dative | golde | — |
Derived terms
Descendants
Volapük
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
gold (nominative plural golds)
Declension
Synonyms
- goldin (chemistry - Au)
- (obsolete): golüd (classic or original Volapük / Volapük rigik)
Derived terms
- bledagold
- bledagoldel
- bledahigoldel
- bledajigoldel
- bledogold
- blufamabagold
- dofaredagold
- filagoldam
- folkloridilgoldiniatazüd
- gold di Mannheim
- gold di Rhein
- gold rafinik
- goldabled
- goldabledül
- goldabraun
- goldabraunik
- goldabronsöt
- goldabük
- goldacäf
- goldadef
- goldadiv
- goldafasan
- goldafit
- goldahivobotel
- goldajivobotel
- goldakonäd Rusänik (limperial)
- goldaköl
- goldakölaglod
- goldakölakrut
- goldakölalaig
- goldakölik
- goldakönäd
- goldaköt
- goldaköted
- goldakötedakad
- goldam
- goldamak
- goldamastöf
- goldamon
- goldan
- goldarein
- goldaränät
- goldatastabot
- goldatazüd
- goldatinkat
- goldatäod
- goldatäodot
- goldavob
- goldavobot
- goldavobotel
- goldayelov
- goldayelovik
- goldibevob
- goldibevoban
- goldiblufam
- goldiflapan
- goldihibevoban
- goldihiflapan
- goldihismitan
- goldijibevoban
- goldijiflapan
- goldijismitan
- goldik
- goldin
- goldinablög
- goldinadef
- goldinadiv
- goldinafilun
- goldinagik
- Goldinajolän
- Goldinajolänan
- Goldinajolänik
- goldinakipädot
- goldinalainaskin
- goldinalän
- goldinameinäd
- goldinavöläd
- goldiner
- goldineraglun
- goldineragron
- goldineraston
- goldinerik
- goldinijafäd
- goldiniloxid
- goldinisulfid
- goldinituv
- goldinituvot
- goldinoklorid
- goldinoloxid
- goldismitan
- goldismitöp
- goldivätöm
- goldöfik
- goldön
- hi-Goldinajolänan
- higoldan
- ji-Goldinajolänan
- jigoldan
- lugold
- lugoldanid
- lugoldanidik
- lugoldik
- mulür goldakölik
- mulür goldik
- rafinagold
- tonat goldik
- tonatem goldik
See also
Welsh
Etymology
Noun
gold m (uncountable)
Derived terms
- gold Ffrainc (“French marigold”)
- gold talsyth (“African marigold”)
- gold y gors (“marsh marigold”)
Mutation
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
gold | old | ngold | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “gold”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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