Gold

Noun

 * 1)  A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au.
 * 2)  A coin made of this material, or supposedly so.
 * 3)  A bright yellow colour, resembling the metal gold.
 * 4)  The bullseye of an archery target.
 * 5)  A gold medal.
 * France has won three golds and five silvers.
 * 1)  Anything or anyone considered to be very valuable.
 * 1)  Anything or anyone considered to be very valuable.

Synonyms

 * 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
 * cloth of gold
 * colloidal gold
 * colored gold, coloured 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-beater, goldbeater
 * gold-beating
 * gold bee
 * gold beetle
 * gold beryl
 * gold blocking
 * gold-bob
 * gold bond
 * gold-book
 * gold braid
 * gold-breasted trumpeter
 * gold brick, gold-brick, goldbrick
 * gold-bricker
 * gold-bricking
 * gold bug
 * gold bullion
 * gold bullion standard
 * gold-capped weaver bird
 * gold-carp
 * gold certificate
 * gold-chain
 * gold chalcogenide
 * gold chloride
 * gold-clause
 * gold cloth
 * gold-color, gold-colour
 * gold-copper ore
 * goldcrest
 * gold-crested wren
 * 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-field, goldfield
 * goldfielder
 * gold-filled
 * gold-film, gold-film glass
 * goldfinch
 * gold-finder
 * goldfinny
 * goldfish
 * 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, gold-mine
 * gold-mining
 * gold-mohr, gold-mohur
 * gold-mouthed
 * gold-note
 * gold of Bruges
 * gold of Genoa
 * gold of pleasure
 * gold of Venice
 * gold-pan
 * gold pentafluoride
 * gold plate, gold-plate
 * gold-plated
 * gold-plating
 * gold point
 * gold-powder
 * gold-purple
 * gold-quartz
 * gold-rain


 * gold record
 * gold reserve
 * gold robin
 * gold rush, gold-rush
 * gold salt
 * gold-sand
 * gold-shell
 * gold-shrub
 * goldsinny
 * gold-size
 * gold-skin
 * goldsmith
 * goldsmithery
 * gold-solder
 * gold sovereign
 * gold-spangle
 * goldspink
 * gold-spot
 * gold standard
 * gold stick, gold-stick
 * gold-stone, goldstone
 * gold swift
 * gold-tail, gold-tail moth
 * 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
 * jeweler's gold, jeweller's gold
 * Kolar Gold Fields
 * leprous gold
 * make a gold
 * Mannheim gold
 * mock gold
 * mosaic gold
 * old 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

 * gild
 * gilded


 * gilt
 * goldwasser

Adjective

 * 1) Made of gold.
 * 2) Having the colour of gold.
 * 3)  Premium, superior.

Synonyms

 * golden

Adjectives for Gold
fraud-accumulated; burnished; sculptured; transparent; crystal;  molten;  wrought; mealy; fretted; refined; virgin; bright; hard-earned; rusted; intense; gleaming; mossy; dominant; vaporous; tested; gravel; supple; gaudy; damning; barbaric; powdered; sterilized; coronation; beaten; clearest; drowned; countless; vile; richest; hoarded; stamped; fluid; fairy; blowing; musty; shimmering;  iridescent;  cloudy; streaked; shining; fragrant; faint; floral; glittering; ruined; banked; clean; coarse; ruddy.

Verbs for Gold
alloy—; amass—; beat out—; bless with—; bribe with—; delve for—; desire—; dig for —; discover—; emboss with—; hammer—; harden—; heap—; hide—; hoard—; load with—; melt—; mine—; pan—; plot for—; roll—; salvage—; search for—; separate—; spurn—; squander—; thirst for—; treasure —; —blinds; —chains; —charms; —clinks; —corrupts; —curses; —degenerates; —glitters; —glistens; —occurs; —sparkles.

Thesaurus
affluence, aluminum, americium, and pence, assets, aureate, aureateness, auric, bar, barium, beige, beryllium, bismuth, bottomless purse, brass, brassy, brazen, bronze, bronzy, buff, buff-yellow, bulging purse, bullion, cadmium, calcium, canary, canary-yellow, cash, cerium, cesium, chrome, chromium, circulating medium, citron, citron-yellow, cobalt, coin gold, coin silver, coinage, coined liberty, cold cash, copper, coppery, cream, creamy, cupreous, cuprous, currency, dollars, dysprosium, easy circumstances, ecru, embarras de richesses, emergency money, erbium, europium, fallow, fallowness, ferrous, ferruginous, filthy lucre, flaxen, fortune, fractional currency, gadolinium, gallium, germanium, gilded, gilt, gold nugget, gold-colored, gold-filled, gold-plated, golden, handsome fortune, hard cash, hard currency, high income, high tax bracket, holmium, independence, indium, ingot, iridium, iron, ironlike, lanthanum, lead, leaden, legal tender, lemon, lemon-yellow, lithium, lucre, luteolous, lutescent, lutetium, luxuriousness, magnesia, magnesium, mammon, managed currency, manganese, material wealth, medium of exchange, mercurial, mercurous, mercury, mintage, molybdenum, money, money to burn, moneybags, necessity money, neodymium, nickel, nickelic, nickeline, niobium, nugget, ocherish, ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous, ochry, opulence, opulency, or, osmium, palladium, pelf, pewter, pewtery, phosphorus, platinum, polonium, possessions, postage currency, postal currency, potassium, pounds, praseodymium, precious metals, primrose, primrose-colored, primrose-yellow, promethium, property, prosperity, prosperousness, protactinium, quicksilver, radium, rhenium, riches, richness, rubidium, ruthenium, saffron, saffron-colored, saffron-yellow, sallow, samarium, sand-colored, sandy, scandium, scrip, shillings, silver, silver-plated, silvery, six-figure income, sodium, soft currency, specie, steel, steely, sterling, straw, straw-colored, strontium, substance, tantalum, technetium, terbium, thallium, the almighty dollar, the wherewith, the wherewithal, thulium, tin, tinny, titanium, treasure, tungsten, upper bracket, uranium, vanadium, wealth, wealthiness, wolfram, xanthic, xanthous, yellow, yellow stuff, yellowish, yellowishness, yellowness, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, zirconium

Etymology
From, from gold:, from  (compare  goud:,  Gold:,  guld:), from Pre-Germanic *ǵhl̥-tó-m, from  (compare  zelts:, Russian золото:, Persian زر:,  hīraṇyam). More at yellow.

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Akkadian:
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Aramaic:
 * Hebrew:
 * Syriac:
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Aymara:
 * Azeri:
 * Basque:
 * Bavarian:
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali: সোনা
 * Bishnupriya Manipuri:
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton:, aouroù
 * Bulgarian:
 * Campidanese Sardinian:
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee:
 * Chinese:
 * Hakka:
 * Mandarin: 金, 金子
 * Chuvash:
 * Cornish: owr
 * Corsican:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
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 * Dutch:
 * Erzya:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian:
 * Galician:
 * Gan:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Kölsch:
 * Gothic:
 * Greek:
 * Guaraní: itaju,
 * Gujarati: સોનું
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese:
 * Kannada:
 * Kapampangan:
 * Karachay-Balkar:
 * Kashubian:
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer: សុវណ្ណ
 * Komi:
 * Kongo:
 * Korean: (金)
 * Kumyk:
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji:
 * Sorani: زێڕ
 * Kyrgyz: алтын
 * Lao:


 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Limburgish:
 * Lingala:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lojban:
 * Low Saxon:
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: ,
 * Malayalam:, സ്വര്‍ണം
 * Maltese: deheb
 * Manx:
 * Maori:
 * Marathi:
 * Mongolian: ,
 * Nahuatl:
 * Narom:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Novial:
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Old English:
 * Old Provençal:
 * Ossetian:
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Quechua:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, аурум
 * Samogitian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Santali:
 * Scots: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: злато
 * Roman: zlato
 * Sichuan Yi:
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Zazaki:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:, பொன்
 * Taos:
 * Tatar: altın
 * Telugu:, కనకం, స్వర్ణం
 * Thai:
 * Tupinambá:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: altyn
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: ,
 * Uyghur: ئالتۇن
 * Uzbek:, oltin
 * Venetian:
 * Vietnamese:, kim (金)
 * Volapük: goldin
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yakut:
 * Yiddish:
 * Yup'ik:
 * Zhuang:
 * Zulu:


 * Afrikaans: goudstuk
 * Armenian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Pinyin: jīnbì
 * Czech:
 * Danish: guldmønt
 * Dutch: goudstuk
 * German:
 * Greek: χρυσό νόμισμα
 * Interlingua: moneta de auro
 * Italian: moneta d'oro


 * Norwegian: gullmynt
 * Portuguese: dobrão, moeda de ouro
 * Russian:
 * Scots: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: zlatnik
 * Slovene: zlatnik
 * Spanish: moneda de oro
 * Swedish:
 * Tok Pisin: golmoni
 * Vietnamese: tiền vàng, đồng vàng


 * Afrikaans:
 * Armenian: ոսկեգույն
 * Basque: urre
 * Catalan:, daurat
 * Chinese: 金色 (jīnsè)
 * Czech:
 * Danish: gylden farve
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * Greek: χρυσό, χρυσαφί, χρυσαφένιο
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Interlingua:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 金色
 * Khmer: សុវណ្ណពណ៌
 * Korean: 골드


 * Latin: flavens,, , aurum
 * Marathi: सोनेरी
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: زرین
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scots: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene: zlata
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: kulay ginto
 * Telugu: స్వర్ణం
 * Vietnamese: màu vàng, vàng kim loại
 * Volapük: goldaköl
 * Welsh: aur


 * Czech:
 * Danish:


 * Russian: яблоко мишени, яблочко
 * Spanish:


 * Afrikaans:, goue medalje
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan:, medalla d’or
 * Chinese: 金牌 (jīnpái)
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, guldmedalje
 * Dutch: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: χρυσό μετάλλιο
 * Hebrew: מדליית זהב
 * Hungarian:
 * Interlingua: medalia de auro


 * Italian: ,
 * Norwegian: gullmedalje
 * Persian: نشان زرین, مدال طلا
 * Portuguese: medalha de ouro
 * Romanian: medalie de aur
 * Scots: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: medalla de oro
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: స్వర్ణం, స్వర్ణాలు
 * Vietnamese: huy chương vàng,


 * Afrikaans:, skatkis
 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, rigdom
 * French:
 * Greek: μάλαμα
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:, , oro colato, oro zecchino


 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:, زرین
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scots: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Telugu: బంగారం
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * : galben auriu (2)
 * : zlatka (3)

Adjective

 * Afrikaans:
 * Catalan: daurat
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: guld-
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:, χρυσαφής, χρυσαφένιος
 * Hungarian:
 * Interlingua:, ,
 * Italian: oro,, , ,
 * Latin:, ,


 * Old English:
 * Persian: طلایی, زرین
 * Polish:, złota, złote
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian: de aur
 * Russian:
 * Scots: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Slovene:, zlata,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: guld-
 * Tagalog: ginto na / gintong
 * Telugu: స్వర్ణ, కనక
 * Vietnamese: (bằng) vàng
 * Volapük: goldik


 * Afrikaans: goud, goudkleurig, goudgeel
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: goudkleurig
 * Esperanto: orkolora
 * Finnish: kullanvärinen, kultainen
 * French: ,
 * German:, , goldfarben
 * Greek: χρυσός (xrisós), χρυσαφής (xrisafís) , χρυσαφένιος (xrisafénios)
 * Hungarian:
 * Interlingua: auree, aurate
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: 黄金色
 * Latin:, , , , , , , , , , ,


 * Persian:, زرین
 * Polish: złoty, złocisty
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: auriu, aurie , aurii
 * Russian:
 * Scots: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: zlatonosan
 * Slovene: zlat, zlata , zlato
 * Spanish: dorado (m), dorada (f)
 * Swedish: gyllene, guldfärgad
 * Telugu: స్వర్ణ (swarna)
 * Vietnamese: (màu) vàng, vàng kim loại (to distinguish from yellow)
 * Volapük: goldakölik


 * : urrezko
 * : aour
 * : златен, златна, златно (zlaten, zlatna, zlatno) m/f/n
 * : itaju-, kuarepotiju-
 * : keemasan
 * : zlatý, zlatá , zlaté
 * : itaîuba-
 * : aur

Adjective

 * 1) barren
 * 2) sterile
 * 3) dry
 * en gold ko &mdash; a dry cow

Noun

 * 1)  (metal)

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with Old Frisian gold:, Old Saxon gold:, Old High German gold: (Dutch goud:, German Gold:), Old Norse goll:, gull: (Swedish guld:), Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌻𐌸:. The Indo-European root is also the source of (Old Church Slavonic злато:, Russian золото:),  (Lithuanian želtas:, Latvian želts:).

Noun

 * 1) gold, riches, treasure
 * Abram wæs swiðe welig on golde. Abram was very rich in gold.

Derived terms

 * goldfāh

Descendants

 * English: gold