English Explanatory Dictionary

gold

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au.
  2. A coin or coinage made of this material, or supposedly so.
  3. A deep yellow colour, resembling the metal gold.
  4. The bullseye of an archery target.
  5. A gold medal.
  6. Anything or anyone that is very valuable.
  7. A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth) made of gold.
symbol
  1. ☉ (alchemy)
adj
  1. Made of gold.
  2. Having the colour of gold.
  3. Premium, superior.
  4. Of a musical recording: having sold 500,000 copies.
  5. Subject to or involving a model of open access in which a published article is immediately available for to read for free with no embargo period.
verb
  1. To appear or cause to appear golden.
adj
  1. In a finished state, ready for manufacturing.
adv
  1. of or referring to a gold version of something
name
  1. An English surname originating as an occupation for a goldsmith or a rich man.
noun
  1. A member of the Goldi or Nanai people.

Pronunciation

/ɡəʊld/ [ɡɒʊɫd] En-uk-gold.ogg /ˈɡɒld/ gōld /ɡoʊld/ [ɡold] LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-gold.wav En-us-gold.ogg /ɡaʉld/ [ɡɒʊ(ɫ)d] /ɡold/ /ɡould/ /ɡuːld/

Word forms

gold golds gould ☉ golder goldest golding golded

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰĺ̥h₃-to-mder. Proto-Germanic *gulþą Proto-West Germanic *golþ Old English gold Middle English gold English gold From Middle English gold, from Old English gold (“gold”), from Proto-West Germanic *golþ, from Proto-Germanic *gulþą (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰl̥h₃tóm (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”). Related to yellow; see there for more. Germanic cognates include Dutch goud, German Gold, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk gull, Danish and Swedish guld, and cognates from other Indo-European languages include Latvian zelts, Russian зо́лото (zóloto), Persian زرد (zard, “yellow, golden”), Sanskrit हिरण्य (hiraṇya).

Synonyms

good as gold aurum E175 when used as a food colouring golden

Related words

gild gilded gilt goldwasser lavatory 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

Derived words

Abyssinian gold Acapulco gold all that glisters is not gold all that glitters is not gold amethyst gold antigold argental gold basket-of-gold begold black and gold garden spider black gold blue-and-gold macaw blue gold cloth of gold colloidal gold colored gold coloured gold comedy gold crock of gold cross of gold crown gold dead gold dentist gold devil's gold digital gold digold ducat gold Dutch gold e-gold eka-gold Etruscan gold everything one touches turns to gold fairy gold filled gold floating gold flour gold fluorogold fool's gold fulminating gold go for gold go for the gold go for the gold ring go gold gold-197 gold-198 gold album gold-amalgam gold amalgam gold-and-silver honeysuckle goldback gold-balls gold-bank gold basket Gold Beach gold-bearing gold-beater goldbeater gold-beater's skin goldbeating gold-beating
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