gold

a coin or coinage made of this material, or supposedly so

2017 — Gravinez, Sheila C., Milagro nga Nabuhi (17 July), Super Bilib, SuperBalita Cebu
Usa ka alindanaw nga may kolor gold ang nag-luksolukso sa mga mata ni Alejandro ug dunay gipasirit nga halang ngadto sa iyang mga mata.

a bright yellow color, resembling the metal gold

(fantasy roleplaying games board games) miscellaneous unit of currency in fantasy genre

Borrowed from English gold, from Middle English gold, from Old English gold (“gold”), from Proto-Germanic *gulþą (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰl̥tóm (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“yellow; gleam; to shine”).


gold

From Middle High German golt, from Old High German gold, from Proto-West Germanic *golþ, from Proto-Germanic *gulþą (“gold”). Cognate with German Gold, English gold.


gold

En gold ko.

gold (positive)
goldere (comparative)
goldest (superlative)
goldt (positive)
golde (plural positive)
goldere (comparative plural)
goldest (plural superlative)
golde (positive)
goldeste (superlative)

Probably from or related to Old Norse geldr (“barren, yielding no milk”), from Proto-Germanic *galdaz, *galdijaz (“barren, unfruitful”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to shout, cry”).
See also Swedish gall (“barren”), German galt, gelt (“yielding no milk, unfruitful”), Old Norse gelda (“to castrate”).


gold

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.

1936, Robert Frost, “The Vindictives”, in A Further Range:

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

The pirates were searching for gold.

(countable or uncountable) A coin or coinage made of this material, or supposedly so.

gold:

metallic gold:

(uncountable) A deep yellow colour, resembling the metal gold.

Daniel hit the gold to win the contest.

(countable) The bullseye of an archery target.

France has won three golds and five silvers.

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.

2010, Paul Hendy, Who Killed Simon Peters?:

Marge Quincey didn't deserve a husband like his dad. He was pure gold, and she wasn't worth a light beside him.

(figuratively) Anything or anyone that is very valuable.

(slang, in the plural) A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth) made of gold.

en-noun

gold (countable and uncountable, plural gold or golds)

gold (plural)
golds (plural)
gould (alternative)

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- (“yellow; gleam; to shine”). Related to yellow; see there for more. Germanic cognates include Dutch goud, German Gold, Norwegian gull, Swedish guld, and cognates from other Indo-European languages include Latvian zelts, Russian зо́лото (zóloto), Persian زرد (zard, “yellow, golden”), Sanskrit हिरण्य (hiraṇya).


gold

gold beetle

in families Chrysomelidae and Cassididae

goldfinny

Symphodus melops and Ctenolabrus rupestris

goud

anything or anyone considered to be very valuable


gold

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.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

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.

1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings:

Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

(of commercial services) Premium, superior.

Coordinate term: platinum

The album went gold, then platinum, thanks to a second hit single, "It's A Miracle".

2000, Billboard, volume 112, number 20, page 52:

Of a musical recording: having sold 500,000 copies.

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.

2013 October 21, Peter Suber, “Open access: six myths to put to rest”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-03:

(academia) 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.

en-adj

gold (not generally comparable, comparative golder, superlative goldest)

golder (comparative)
goldest (superlative)
gould (alternative)


gold

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.

2010, Tanuja Desai Hidier, Born Confused:

You are the sun at Noon, that golds the barley, and pulls the bee to the ling on the moor.

2011, Harry Nicholson, Tom Fleck, page 250:

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.

2011, Robert M. Ellis, “Pokhara Lake”, in North Cape: Selected Poems of a Poet Turned Philosopher, page 21:

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.

2021, Edward Elmer Smith, The Imperial Stars:

en-verb

gold (third-person singular simple present golds, present participle golding, simple past and past participle golded)

golds (present singular third-person)
golding (participle present)
golded (participle past)
golded (past)
gould (alternative)


gold

The Company confirmed that Half-Life 2, developed by Valve Software, has gone gold with a planned retail street date of November 16, 2004.

2004 November, “Half-Life 2 goes gold”, in HWM, page 10:

He felt bone-tired and twitchy, the way he did in the final stages of putting a video-game project together, almost ready to go gold and turn a new game loose on the public.

I had coded guilds into M59 over the weekend, shortly before we were supposed to go gold.

2011, Jessica Mulligan, Bridgette Patrovsky, quoting Damion Schubert, Developing Online Games: An Insider's Guide, page 221:

(programming, of software) In a finished state, ready for manufacturing.

From gold master, a copy of the code certified as being ready for release.


gold

of or referring to a gold version of something


gold

English: gold

Scots: gowd, goold

From Old English gold (“gold”), from Proto-West Germanic *golþ, from Proto-Germanic *gulþą (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰl̥tóm (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“yellow; gleam; to shine”).


gold

gold (indefinite singular)
golde (definite plural singular)
goldare (comparative)
goldast (indefinite superlative)
goldaste (definite superlative)


gold

late 10th century, Ælfric, "Chair of Saint Peter"
...Næbbe ic seolfor ne gold, ic þē dō þæt ic hæbbe...

...I have neither silver nor gold, I give thee that I have...

gold (nominative singular)
gold (accusative singular)
goldes (genitive singular)
golde (dative singular)

desctree

Middle English: gold
English: gold
Scots: gowd, goold

From Proto-West Germanic *golþ, from Proto-Germanic *gulþą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰĺ̥tom.


gold

golds (nominative plural)
gold (nominative singular)
golds (nominative plural)
golda (genitive singular)
goldas (genitive plural)
golde (dative singular)
goldes (dative plural)
goldi (accusative singular)
goldis (accusative plural)
o gold! (singular vocative)
o golds! (plural vocative)
goldu (predicative singular)
goldus (plural predicative)

golüd

classic or original Volapük / Volapük rigik