NUGGET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nugget mean? 

• NUGGET (noun)
  The noun NUGGET has 1 sense:

1. a solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth

  Familiarity information: NUGGET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NUGGET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("nugget" is a kind of...):

hunk; lump (a large piece of something without definite shape)

 Context examples 

From its open mouth poured a yellow stream of coarse gold-dust and nuggets.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

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)

Dying men had sworn to it, and to the mine the site of which it marked, clinching their testimony with nuggets that were unlike any known grade of gold in the Northland.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Each day they worked earned them thousands of dollars in clean dust and nuggets, and they worked every day.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

And the woman, leaning against the bunk, raging and impotent, watched herself weighed out in yellow dust and nuggets in the scales erected on the grub-box.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)