PURE GOLD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pure gold mean? 

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

1. 100 per cent gold

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PURE GOLD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

100 per cent gold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

24-karat gold; pure gold

Hypernyms ("pure gold" 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 

Pure gold is 24 carat, whilst 18 carat gold comprises 18/24 gold and 6/24 alloy.

(Carat of Gold Alloy, NCI Thesaurus)

Dummling went and cut down the tree, and when it fell there was a goose sitting in the roots with feathers of pure gold.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,—a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and drinks divine draughts nevertheless.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But as she sat she bethought herself of the egg that the moon had given her; and when she broke it, there ran out a hen and twelve chickens of pure gold, that played about, and then nestled under the old one’s wings, so as to form the most beautiful sight in the world.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

As the clock struck twelve he heard a rustling noise in the air, and a bird came flying that was of pure gold; and as it was snapping at one of the apples with its beak, the gardener’s son jumped up and shot an arrow at it.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)