Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to gold
Participle: golded
Gerund: golding
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | gold |
| you | gold |
| he;she;it | golds |
| we | gold |
| you | gold |
| they | gold |
Perfect
| I | have golded |
| you | have golded |
| he;she;it | has golded |
| we | have golded |
| you | have golded |
| they | have golded |
Past
| I | golded |
| you | golded |
| he;she;it | golded |
| we | golded |
| you | golded |
| they | golded |
Pluperfect
| I | had golded |
| you | had golded |
| he;she;it | had golded |
| we | had golded |
| you | had golded |
| they | had golded |
Future
| I | will gold |
| you | will gold |
| he;she;it | will gold |
| we | will gold |
| you | will gold |
| they | will gold |
Future Perfect
| I | will have golded |
| you | will have golded |
| he;she;it | will have golded |
| we | will have golded |
| you | will have golded |
| they | will have golded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | gold |
| you | gold |
| he;she;it | gold |
| we | gold |
| you | gold |
| they | gold |
Perfect
| I | have golded |
| you | have golded |
| he;she;it | have golded |
| we | have golded |
| you | have golded |
| they | have golded |
Imperfect
| I | golded |
| you | golded |
| he;she;it | golded |
| we | golded |
| you | golded |
| they | golded |
Pluperfect
| I | had golded |
| you | had golded |
| he;she;it | had golded |
| we | had golded |
| you | had golded |
| they | had golded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would gold |
| you | would gold |
| he;she;it | would gold |
| we | would gold |
| you | would gold |
| they | would gold |
Perfect
| I | would have golded |
| you | would have golded |
| he;she;it | would have golded |
| we | would have golded |
| you | would have golded |
| they | would have golded |
Imperative
| you | gold |
| we | Let's gold |
| you | gold |
Verbs conjugated like 'gold'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'gold'
bold,
fold,
geld,
gild,
goad,
god,
golf,
good,
hold,
mold,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃-
3. Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰĺ̥h₃-to-mder.
4. Proto-Germanic *gulþą
5. Proto-West Germanic *golþ
6. Old English gold
7. Middle English gold
8. English gold
9. From Middle English gold, from Old English gold (“gold”), from Proto-West Germanic *golþ, from Proto-Germanic *gulþą (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰl̥h₃tóm (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”). Related to yellow; see there for more. Germanic cognates include Scots gowd, Dutch goud, German Gold, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk gull, Danish and Swedish guld, and cognates from other Indo-European languages include Latvian zelts, Russian зо́лото (zóloto), Persian زرد (zard, “yellow, golden”), Sanskrit हिरण्य (hiraṇya).
Sample Sentences
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I caught sight of something that seemed the nexus of all that glittered, all that golded: like a hallucination in the traffic's rotary heart, a saried creature giddily swirling her own razored rainbow roundabout, mirrored fabric sending light spinning like saberlike amidst the smoking, choking cars. [2010, Tanuja Desai Hidier, Born Confused:]
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You are the sun at Noon, that golds the barley, and pulls the bee to the ling on the moor. [2011, Harry Nicholson, Tom Fleck, page 250:]
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Worked wonders, knowing a thing like that. Golded up your hair, even, for all your record said indeterminate. Golded up the whole world, really. [2011, D G Compton, A Usual Lunacy:]
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But I work still, a dead, unheeding man across the endless interface: wishing I was the sun who golds the lake or the lake, comprehending sun. [2011, Robert M. Ellis, “Pokhara Lake”, in North Cape: Selected Poems of a Poet Turned Philosopher, page 21:]
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Hair down to my shoulders; waved and liquid-golded. Eyebrows shaved to a different shape and golded. Handle-bar mustache, waxed to points and golded. [2021, Edward Elmer Smith, The Imperial Stars:]