gold

A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79.uncountableusually

• 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.
• “Femininity and softness,” says Jean-Bernard Forot, Piaget’s jewelry director, to explain the move toward pink and red golds, as well as stones that include pink tones: sapphires, rubellites and the increasingly rare spinels.

A coin or coinage made of this material, or supposedly so.countableuncountable

• The pirates were searching for gold.

A deep yellow colour, resembling the metal gold.uncountableusually

• Now yellow is ascendant: ambers, golds and sulfurs radiate from the fallen leaves among the rocks and tree trunks.

The bullseye of an archery target.countable

• Daniel hit the gold to win the contest.

A gold medal.countable

• France has won three golds and five silvers.

Anything or anyone that is very valuable.countablefigurativelyuncountable

• That food mixer you gave me is absolute gold, mate!

A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth) made of gold.countablein-pluralslang

☉ (alchemy)

Made of gold.not-comparableusually

• a gold chain

Having the colour of gold.not-comparableusually

• gold sticker
• gold socks

Premium, superior.not-comparableusually

Of a musical recording, having sold 500,000 copies.not-comparableusually

• The album went gold, then platinum, thanks to a second hit single, "It's A Miracle".

Subject to or involving a model of open access in which a published article is immediately available for to read for free with no embargo period.not-comparableusually

• Coordinate term: green

To appear or cause to appear golden.transitive

• You are the sun at Noon, that golds the barley, and pulls the bee to the ling on the moor.
• Worked wonders, knowing a thing like that. Golded up your hair, even, for all your record said indeterminate. Golded up the whole world, really.

In a finished state, ready for manufacturing.not-comparable

• The Company confirmed that Half-Life 2, developed by Valve Software, has gone gold with a planned retail street date of November 16, 2004.
• He felt bone-tired and twitchy, the way he did in the final stages of putting a video-game project together, almost ready to go gold and turn a new game loose on the public.

of or referring to a gold version of somethingnot-comparable