gold

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   having the deep slightly brownish color of gold

   long aureate (or golden) hair

2. 2
   adj

   made from or covered with gold

   gold coins

3. 3
   noun

   something likened to the metal in brightness or preciousness or superiority etc.

   the child was as good as gold

4. 4
   noun

   great wealth

   Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, and almost every vice--almighty gold--Ben Jonson

5. 5
   noun

   A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au.

   You like to hear about gold. A king filled his prison room As full as the room could hold To the top of his reach on the wall With every known shape of the stuff. ’Twas to buy himself off his doom.

6. 6
   noun

   A coin or coinage made of this material, or supposedly so.

   The pirates were searching for gold.

7. 7
   noun

   The bullseye of an archery target.

   Daniel hit the gold to win the contest.

8. 8
   noun

   A gold medal.

   France has won three golds and five silvers.

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…