gold
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: academia
business
commerce
entertainment
lifestyle
media
music
publishing
retail
scholarly
sciences
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 Scots gowd, Dutch goud, German Gold, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk gull, Danish and Swedish guld, and cognates from other Indo-European languages include Latvian zelts, Russian зо́лото (zóloto), Persian زرد (zard, “yellow, golden”), Sanskrit हिरण्य (hiraṇya).
Inflected forms:
form: gold
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: golds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gould
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: ☉
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: golder
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: goldest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: gould
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: ☉
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: golds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: golding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: golded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: golded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gould
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: ☉
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: gould
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: ☉
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A coin or coinage made of this material, or supposedly so.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The pirates were searching for gold.
gloss: A deep yellow colour, resembling the metal gold.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The bullseye of an archery target.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Daniel hit the gold to win the contest.
gloss: A gold medal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: France has won three golds and five silvers.
gloss: Anything or anyone that is very valuable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: That food mixer you gave me is absolute gold, mate!
Now obviously this meant that I went over my allotted time, but the theatre management didn't mind because I was giving them comedy gold and that's what gets bums on seats.
Marge Quincey didn't deserve a husband like his dad. He was pure gold, and she wasn't worth a light beside him.
gloss: A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth) made of gold.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
slang
uncountable
gloss: Made of gold.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: a gold chain
Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.
gloss: Having the colour of gold.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: gold sticker
gold socks
Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.
Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.
gloss: Premium, superior.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
gloss: Of a musical recording, having sold 500,000 copies.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: The album went gold, then platinum, thanks to a second hit single, "It's A Miracle".
gloss: Subject to or involving a model of open access in which a published article is immediately available for to read for free with no embargo period.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: Coordinate term: green
Scholars who make their work green open access rather than gold never pay a fee to do so. Even when they choose the gold route, only 33% of peer-reviewed open access journals charge author-side fees.
gloss: To appear or cause to appear golden.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I caught sight of something that seemed the nexus of all that glittered, all that golded: like a hallucination in the traffic's rotary heart, a saried creature giddily swirling her own razored rainbow roundabout, mirrored fabric sending light spinning like saberlike amidst the smoking, choking cars.
You are the sun at Noon, that golds the barley, and pulls the bee to the ling on the moor.
Worked wonders, knowing a thing like that. Golded up your hair, even, for all your record said indeterminate. Golded up the whole world, really.
But I work still, a dead, unheeding man across the endless interface: wishing I was the sun who golds the lake or the lake, comprehending sun.
Hair down to my shoulders; waved and liquid-golded. Eyebrows shaved to a different shape and golded. Handle-bar mustache, waxed to points and golded.
gloss: of or referring to a gold version of something
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
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