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golden

  • adjective
  • gol·den
  • /ˈɡəʊl.dən/

Made of, or relating to, gold.

Example

“She wore a golden crown.”

Other meanings

  1. Having a color or other richness suggestive of gold.

    “Under a golden sun.”

  2. Of a beverage, flavoured or colored with turmeric.

Example sentences

  • “Her silence is golden.”

    Tatoeba · Igider · CC0
  • “The golden jackal is in the same genus as wolves and coyotes.”

    Tatoeba · Miktsoanit · CC0

Word history

From Old English "gylden".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “golden” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.