golden

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   suggestive of gold

   a golden voice

2. 2
   adj

   having the deep slightly brownish color of gold

   long aureate (or golden) hair

3. 3
   adj

   supremely favored

   golden lads and girls all must / like chimney sweepers come to dust

4. 4
   adj

   marked by peace and prosperity

   a golden era

5. 5
   adj

   Made of, or relating to, gold.

   She wore a golden crown.

6. 6
   adj

   Having a color or other richness suggestive of gold.

   Under a golden sun.

7. 7
   adj

   Marked by prosperity, creativity etc.

   The Renaissance was a golden era.

8. 8
   adj

   Advantageous or very favourable.

   This is a golden opportunity

Etymology

From Middle English golden, a restored form (due to the noun gold) of earlier Middle English gulden, gylden, gilden ("golden"; > English gilden), from Old English gylden (“golden”), from Proto-West Germanic *gulþīn, from Proto-Germanic *gulþīnaz (“golden, made of gold”), equivalent to gold + -en. Cognate with Dutch gouden, gulden (“golden”), German gülden, golden (“golden”), Danish gylden (“golden”). Doublet of gilden. More at gold.