gold

CEFRA1

/ɡəʊld/

noun · adjective

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A valuable yellow metal used for jewelry and coins.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Made of gold or having its yellow color.

Examples

  • The company name was spelled out in gold letters.

  • The gold coin was much more valuable than was supposed.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
3

Also pronounced

  • [ɡɒʊɫd]
  • [ɡold]

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

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

  2. A deep yellow colour, resembling the metal gold.

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

More examples

In context

  • There is a gold coin.

  • Daniel hit the gold to win the contest.

  • France has won three golds and five silvers.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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).