gold
gohld
- n coins made of gold
- n a deep yellow color
he admired the gold of her hair - n a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia
- n great wealth
Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, and almost every vice--almighty gold"--Ben Jonson - n something likened to the metal in brightness or preciousness or superiority etc.
the child was as good as gold
she has a heart of gold - s made from or covered with gold
gold coins
the gold dome of the Capitol
the golden calf - s having the deep slightly brownish color of gold
long aureate (or golden) hair
a gold carpet
- In much of the world, gold bars and coins are still hoarded as a favored form of wealththe kind that printing presses can never turn out.
- In the world's money marts last week, all the talk, the worry and the news was about gold.
- In the hazy days of the Chinese empire, centuries before Magellan reached the Orient, the Igorots of Benguet mined gold in the Philippine hills.