gold

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A heavy, shiny yellow metal that is very valuable, used for jewellery and coins.

   Her ring was made of pure gold.

2. 2
   adj

   Made of gold or covered with gold.

   He paid with an old gold coin.

3. 3
   noun

   A gold medal, given to the winner of a competition.

   France won three golds at the Olympics.

4. 4
   adj

   Having the deep, warm yellow colour of gold.

   The fields turned gold in the late summer sun.

Common collocations

• gold ring Adjective + noun
• gold watch Adjective + noun
• gold digger Noun + noun
• gold medal Adjective + noun

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, Norwegian gull, Swedish guld, and cognates from other Indo-European languages include Latvian zelts, Russ…

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