Also spelled goold
Meanings
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noun
A heavy, shiny yellow metal that is very valuable, used for jewellery and coins.
Her ring was made of pure gold.
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2
adj
Made of gold or covered with gold.
He paid with an old gold coin.
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3
noun
A gold medal, given to the winner of a competition.
France won three golds at the Olympics.
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4
adj
Having the deep, warm yellow colour of gold.
The fields turned gold in the late summer sun.
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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, Norwegian gull, Swedish guld, and cognates from other Indo-European languages include Latvian zelts, Russ…