"golden billion" meaning in English

See golden billion in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: golden billions [plural]
Etymology: Calque of Russian золото́й миллиа́рд (zolotój milliárd). Etymology templates: {{clq|en|ru|золото́й миллиа́рд}} Calque of Russian золото́й миллиа́рд (zolotój milliárd) Head templates: {{en-noun}} golden billion (plural golden billions)
  1. The world's richest billion people, maintained by an indefinite elite which supposedly pulls strings to amass wealth and destroy regular people’s lives. Wikipedia link: golden billion
    Sense id: en-golden_billion-en-noun-s5o5wqgd Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for golden billion meaning in English (1.1kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ru",
        "3": "золото́й миллиа́рд"
      },
      "expansion": "Calque of Russian золото́й миллиа́рд (zolotój milliárd)",
      "name": "clq"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Calque of Russian золото́й миллиа́рд (zolotój milliárd).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "golden billions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "golden billion (plural golden billions)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The world's richest billion people, maintained by an indefinite elite which supposedly pulls strings to amass wealth and destroy regular people’s lives."
      ],
      "id": "en-golden_billion-en-noun-s5o5wqgd",
      "links": [
        [
          "indefinite",
          "indefinite"
        ],
        [
          "elite",
          "elite"
        ],
        [
          "pulls strings",
          "pull strings"
        ],
        [
          "amass",
          "amass"
        ],
        [
          "wealth",
          "wealth"
        ],
        [
          "destroy",
          "destroy"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "golden billion"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "golden billion"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ru",
        "3": "золото́й миллиа́рд"
      },
      "expansion": "Calque of Russian золото́й миллиа́рд (zolotój milliárd)",
      "name": "clq"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Calque of Russian золото́й миллиа́рд (zolotój milliárd).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "golden billions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "golden billion (plural golden billions)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms calqued from Russian",
        "English terms derived from Russian"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The world's richest billion people, maintained by an indefinite elite which supposedly pulls strings to amass wealth and destroy regular people’s lives."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "indefinite",
          "indefinite"
        ],
        [
          "elite",
          "elite"
        ],
        [
          "pulls strings",
          "pull strings"
        ],
        [
          "amass",
          "amass"
        ],
        [
          "wealth",
          "wealth"
        ],
        [
          "destroy",
          "destroy"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "golden billion"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "golden billion"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.