Noun: gold
| Singular | gold |
| Plural | gold; golds |
Sample Sentences
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You like to hear about gold.
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A king filled his prison room
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As full as the room could hold
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To the top of his reach on the wall
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With every known shape of the stuff.
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’Twas to buy himself off his doom. [1936, Robert Frost, “The Vindictives”, in A Further Range:]
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The pirates were searching for gold.
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Daniel hit the gold to win the contest.
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France has won three golds and five silvers.
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That food mixer you gave me is absolute gold, mate!
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Now obviously this meant that I went over my allotted time, but the theatre management didn't mind because I was giving them comedy gold and that's what gets bums on seats. [2010, Paul Hendy, Who Killed Simon Peters?:]
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Marge Quincey didn't deserve a husband like his dad. He was pure gold, and she wasn't worth a light beside him. [2012, Victor Pemberton, Leo's Girl:]
Nouns inflected like gold
seiyuu,
sensei,
senryu,
whaanau,
xianbing,
samlor,
salumi,
salmon,
sika deer,
shrimp,
shumai,
eastern moa,
Guarani-Kaiowá,
northern shrimp,
izakaya,
pūkeko,
autopaizuri,
yukata,
yueqin,
panzerotti, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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). See: Middle English Nouns '
gold', Old English Nouns '
gold', Dutch Nouns '
goud', German Nouns '
Gold', Latvian Nouns '
zelts'.
Verbs referencing "gold"
Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
gull, Finnish Nouns
kulta, Polish Nouns
złoto, Latvian Nouns
zelts, Zulu Nouns
igolide.