golden
//ˈɡəʊl.dən//
Forms
- Comparative
- more golden
- Superlative
- most golden
- Plural
- goldens
- present (v1)
- golden
- past (v2)
- goldened
- past participle (v3)
- goldened
- present participle
- goldening
- 3rd person singular
- goldens
Definitions
1.Made of, or relating to, gold.
- She wore a golden crown.
2.Having a color or other richness suggestive of gold.
3.Of a beverage, flavoured or colored with turmeric.
4.Marked by prosperity, creativity etc.
- The Renaissance was a golden era.
- O Partridge! could I hope once again to see that face; but, alas! all those golden dreams are vanished for ever, and my only refuge from future misery is to forget the object of all my former happiness.
1.Kyphosus vaigiensis, a fish found in southeast Asia.
2.Ellipsis of golden retriever.
- Throw a toy into the water, and watch your golden go for it!
- In Britain, the Golden Retriever Breed Clubs’ Rescue Officers nationwide rescued and rehomed 454 Goldens in 1987.
- The archives of the Golden Retriever Club of America (GRCA) record goldens in the United States as early as the 1890s.
1.To become gold or golden (in color).
2.To make golden or like gold.
- It goldened, as nothing else goldened, the commonplace countryside.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2127
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Word family
Etymology
From Middle English golden, a restored form (due to the noun gold) of earlier Middle English gulden, gylden, gilden ("golden"; > English gilden), from Old English gylden (“golden”), from Proto-West Germanic *gulþīn, from Proto-Germanic *gulþīnaz (“golden, made of gold”), equivalent to gold + -en.