GOLD DUST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gold dust mean? 

• GOLD DUST (noun)
  The noun GOLD DUST has 1 sense:

1. the particles and flakes (and sometimes small nuggets) of gold obtained in placer mining

  Familiarity information: GOLD DUST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOLD DUST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The particles and flakes (and sometimes small nuggets) of gold obtained in placer mining

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("gold dust" is a kind of...):

atomic number 79; Au; gold (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)

 Context examples 

Mate, he was saying, it's because I thinks gold dust of you—gold dust, and you may lay to that!

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He was exhibited as "the Fighting Wolf," and men paid fifty cents in gold dust to see him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

So saying, he slammed a sack of gold dust of the size of a bologna sausage down upon the bar.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Not valuing now the root whence it sprang; having found that it was of a sort which nothing but gold dust could manure, I have but half a liking to the blossom, especially when it looks so artificial as just now.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)