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GOLDEN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does golden mean?
• GOLDEN (adjective)
The adjective GOLDEN has 6 senses:
1. having the deep slightly brownish color of gold
2. marked by peace and prosperity
3. made from or covered with gold
4. supremely favored
5. suggestive of gold
6. presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome
Familiarity information: GOLDEN used as an adjective is common.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: goldenest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having the deep slightly brownish color of gold
Synonyms:
aureate; gilded; gilt; gold; golden
Context example:
a gold carpet
Similar:
chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Marked by peace and prosperity
Synonyms:
golden; halcyon; prosperous
Context example:
the halcyon days of the clipper trade
Similar:
happy (enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Made from or covered with gold
Synonyms:
Context example:
gilded icons
Similar:
metal; metallic (containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Supremely favored
Synonyms:
fortunate; golden
Context example:
fortunate son
Similar:
blessed; blest (highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace))
Sense 5
Meaning:
Suggestive of gold
Context example:
a golden voice
Similar:
euphonious; euphonous (having a pleasant sound)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome
Synonyms:
favorable; favourable; golden; lucky; prosperous
Context example:
a prosperous moment to make a decision
Similar:
propitious (presenting favorable circumstances; likely to result in or show signs of success)
Context examples
This is where the golden nuggets lie this month, so plan to leave the house and find out where to direct your passionate efforts.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Taking a big golden key from a peg on the wall, he opened another gate, and they all followed him through the portal into the streets of the Emerald City.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
The hunter, golden bearded like a sea-king, came over the rail and dropped on deck.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The other was fair, as fair as can be, with great wavy masses of golden hair and eyes like pale sapphires.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
A certain king had a beautiful garden, and in the garden stood a tree which bore golden apples.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Each time he murmured it, her face shimmered before him, suffusing the foul wall with a golden radiance.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Her beauty, her pink cheeks and golden curls, seemed to give delight to all who looked at her, and to purchase indemnity for every fault.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The white of the throat and paws and the spots over the eyes was dirty because of the persistent and ineradicable brown, while the eyes themselves were twin topazes, golden and brown.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
“I owe you an apology,” he said, raising his golden pince-nez to his eyes.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At midday, not only did the sun warm the southern horizon, but it even thrust its upper rim, pale and golden, above the sky-line.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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