gold | (noun) a deep yellow color | Synonyms: amber |
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(noun) something likened to the metal in brightness or preciousness or superiority etc. | - |
(noun) coins made of gold | - |
(noun) great wealth | - |
(noun) 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 | Synonyms: atomic number 79, Au |
goldbeater | (noun) an artisan who beats gold into gold leaf | Synonyms: gold-beater |
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goldbrick | (noun) anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless | - |
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(noun) a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not | - |
(noun) an idle worthless person | Synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, no-account |
(noun) a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort | - |
goldbricking | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goofing off, shirking, slacking, soldiering |
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goldcrest | (noun) European kinglet with a black-bordered yellow crown patch | Synonyms: golden-crested kinglet, Regulus regulus |
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goldcup | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, butterflower, crowfoot, kingcup |
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goldenbush | (noun) a plant of the genus Haplopappus | - |
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(noun) any of various much-branched yellow-flowered shrubs of the genus Chrysothamnus; western North America | - |
goldeneye | (noun) large-headed swift-flying diving duck of Arctic regions | Synonyms: Bucephela clangula, whistler |
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(noun) a variety of green lacewing | Synonyms: golden-eyed fly |
goldenrod | (noun) any of numerous chiefly summer-blooming and fall-blooming North American plants especially of the genus Solidago | - |
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goldenseal | (noun) perennial herb of northeastern United States having a thick knotted yellow rootstock and large rounded leaves | Synonyms: golden seal, Hydrastis Canadensis, turmeric root, yellow root |
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goldfield | (noun) a district where gold is mined | - |
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goldfields | (noun) small slender woolly annual with very narrow opposite leaves and branches bearing solitary golden-yellow flower heads; southwestern Oregon to Baja California and Arizona; often cultivated | Synonyms: Lasthenia chrysostoma |
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goldfinch | (noun) small European finch having a crimson face and yellow-and-black wings | Synonyms: Carduelis carduelis |
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(noun) American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer | Synonyms: New World goldfinch, Spinus tristis, yellowbird |
goldfish | (noun) small golden or orange-red freshwater fishes of Eurasia used as pond or aquarium fishes | Synonyms: Carassius auratus |
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goldilocks | (noun) early-flowering perennial of southern and southeastern Europe with flower heads resembling those of goldenrod | Synonyms: Aster linosyris, goldilocks aster, Linosyris vulgaris |
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goldmine | (noun) a mine where gold ore is found | Synonyms: gold mine |
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(noun) a good source of something that is desired | Synonyms: gold mine |
goldsmith | (noun) an artisan who makes jewelry and other objects out of gold | Synonyms: gold-worker, goldworker |
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goldsmithery | (noun) the work, art, or trade of a one who makes or deals in articles of gold. | - |
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goldstone | (noun) aventurine spangled densely with fine gold-colored particles | - |
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goldthread | (noun) low-growing perennial of North America woodlands having trifoliate leaves and yellow rootstock and white flowers | Synonyms: Coptis groenlandica, Coptis trifolia groenlandica, golden thread |
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goldworker | (noun) an artisan who makes jewelry and other objects out of gold | Synonyms: gold-worker, goldsmith |
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