| gold rush | a large migration of people to a newly discovered gold field |
black and gold garden spider
Argiope aurantia | a widely distributed North American garden spider |
gold-tail moth
Euproctis chrysorrhoea | white furry-bodied European moth with a yellow tail tuft |
Acapulco gold
Mexican green | a particularly potent variety of marijuana |
braid
gold braid
braiding | trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains |
| gold foil | foil made of gold |
| gold leaf | a very thin form of gold foil |
| gold medal | a trophy made of gold (or having the appearance of gold) that is usually awarded for winning first place in a competition |
goldmine
gold mine | a mine where gold ore is found |
| goldmine gold mine | a good source of something that is desired |
| gold plate | a thin plating of gold on something |
| gold plate | tableware that is plated with gold |
amber
gold | a deep yellow color, an amber light illuminated the room, he admired the gold of her hair |
| old gold | a dark yellow |
| gold | 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 |
| gold standard | a paragon of excellence, academic education is the gold standard against which other educational activity is pejoratively judged |
boom bonanza
gold rush
gravy
godsend
manna from heaven
windfall
bunce | a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money), the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line |
| gold fever | greed and the contagious excitement of a gold rush |
| gold coast | a rich neighborhood noted for expensive homes and luxurious living, usually along a coastal area, Chicago's gold coast is along Lake Michigan |
Ghana
Republic of Ghana
Gold Coast | a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea, Ghana was colonized as the Gold Coast by the British |
goldbeater
gold-beater | an artisan who beats gold into gold leaf |
| gold digger | a woman who associates with or marries a rich man in order to get valuables from him through gifts or a divorce settlement |
gold miner
gold digger
gold panner | a miner who digs or pans for gold in a gold field |
goldsmith
goldworker
gold-worker | an artisan who makes jewelry and other objects out of gold |
gold of pleasure
Camelina sativa | annual European false flax having small white flowers, cultivated since Neolithic times as a source of fiber and for its oilich seeds, widely naturalized in North America |
alpine gold
alpine hulsea
Hulsea algida | low tufted plant having hairy stems each topped by a flower head with short narrow yellow rays, northwestern United States |
golden glow
double gold
hortensia Rudbeckia laciniata hortensia | very tall branching herb with showy much-doubled yellow flower heads |
guinea gold vine
guinea flower | any of several Australasian evergreen vines widely cultivated in warm regions for their large bright yellow single flowers |
gold fern
Pityrogramma chrysophylla | fern of West Indies and South America having fronds with bright golden-yellow undersides |
bounty
premium | payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military |
| premium | a prize, bonus, or award given as an inducement to purchase products, enter competitions initiated by business interests, etc., they encouraged customers with a premium for loyal patronage |
| premium insurance premium | payment for insurance |
agio
agiotage
premium exchange premium | a fee charged for exchanging currencies |
special drawing rights
paper gold | reserve assets in the International Monetary Fund, designed to supplement reserves of gold and convertible currencies used to maintain stability in the foreign exchange market |
| gold | great wealth, Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, and almost every vice--almighty gold--Ben Jonson |
| gold | coins made of gold |
| gold standard | a monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is defined by a stated quantity of gold |
| premium | the amount that something in scarce supply is valued above its nominal value, they paid a premium for access to water |
| Premium Bond | a government bond that bears no interest or capital gains but enters the holder into lotteries |
gold
Au
atomic number | 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 |
pyrite
iron pyrite
fool's gold | a common mineral (iron disulfide) that has a pale yellow color |
mosaic gold
stannic sulfide | a yellow pigment sometimes suspended in lacquer |
| gold dust | the particles and flakes (and sometimes small nuggets) of gold obtained in placer mining |
| white gold | a pale alloy of gold usually with platinum or nickel or palladium |
| dental gold | an alloy of gold used in dentistry |
| green gold | a gold alloy (at least karat gold with silver or silver and cadmium) that has a green appearance |
| guinea gold | #NAME? |
red brass
guinea gold | brass with enough copper to give it a reddish tint, used for plumbing pipe and other brass hardware and in cheap jewelry |
goldplate
gold-plate
gold plate | plate with gold, goldplate a watch |
aureate
gilded
gilt
gold
golden | having the deep slightly brownish color of gold, long aureate (or golden) hair, a gold carpet |