gold
/ɡoʊld/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.17 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
(uncountable) A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79.
Countable; Uncountable
symbol
☉ (alchemy)
Example Sentences
- "You like to hear about gold. A king filled his prison room As full as the room could hold To the top of his reach on the wall With every known shape of the stuff. ’Twas to buy himself off his doom."
- "The pirates were searching for gold."
- "Daniel hit the gold to win the contest."
- "France has won three golds and five silvers."
- "That food mixer you gave me is absolute gold, mate!"
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰĺ̥h₃-to-mder. Proto-Germanic *gulþą Proto-West Germanic *golþ Old English gold Middle English gold English gold 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).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: gold, *golþ, *gulþą, *ǵʰl̥h₃tóm, *ǵʰelh₃-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɡoʊld/
- British English: /ɡəʊld/
Usage
Subject
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