gold
1. coins made of gold (Freq. 8)
• Hypernyms:
precious metal
• Substance Meronyms:
Au, atomic number 79
2. a deep yellow color (Freq. 8)
- an amber light illuminated the room
- he admired the gold of her hair
• Syn:
amber
• Derivationally related forms:
amber (for: amber)
• Hypernyms:
yellow, yellowness
3. 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 (Freq. 2)
• Syn:
Au, atomic number 79
• Hypernyms:
noble metal
• Hyponyms:
24-karat gold, pure gold, gold dust, green gold, guinea gold
• Substance Holonyms:
dental gold, sylvanite, graphic tellurium, gold foil, gold leaf
4. great wealth
- "Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, and almost every vice--almighty gold"--Ben Jonson
• Hypernyms:
wealth, riches
5. 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
• Hypernyms:
invaluableness, preciousness, pricelessness, valuableness
1. having the deep slightly brownish color of gold (Freq. 2)
- long aureate (or golden) hair
- a gold carpet
• Syn:
aureate, gilded, gilt, golden
• Similar to:
chromatic
• Derivationally related forms:
gilt (for: gilt)
2. made from or covered with gold (Freq. 2)
- gold coins
- the gold dome of the Capitol
- the golden calf
- gilded icons
• Syn:
golden, gilded
• Similar to:
metallic, metal
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