Gold definition
Gold is a noun meaning "coins made of gold." It has 7 meanings, as a noun and an adjective, listed below with example sentences.
- Part of speech
- noun, adjective
- Syllables
- 1
- Letters
- 4
- How common
- Everyday word
Gold as a noun
coins made of gold
a deep yellow color
"he admired the gold of her hair"
Same sense: amber
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
great wealth
"Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, / And almost every vice, almighty gold …"
something likened to the metal in brightness or preciousness or superiority etc.
"the child was as good as gold"
Gold as an adjective
made from or covered with gold
"gold coins"
Same sense: golden, gilded
having the deep slightly brownish color of gold
"long aureate (or golden) hair"
Same sense: golden, gilded, gilt, aureate
Synonyms and antonyms
- amber
- golden
- gilded
- gilt
- aureate
How to say gold
Gold has 1 syllable and rhymes with old. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.
Words that rhyme with gold
GOLD in word games
- Scrabble
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Anagrams
- 0
Is GOLD a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check GOLD in the word checker, or unscramble GOLD to see the shorter words in its letters.
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