GOLD FOIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gold foil mean? 

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

1. foil made of gold

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOLD FOIL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Foil made of gold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

foil (a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal)

Meronyms (substance of "gold foil"):

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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gold foil"):

gold leaf (a very thin form of gold foil)