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1gold Listen to audio/ˈgoʊld/ noun
plural golds
1 [noncount] : a soft yellow metal that is very valuable and that is used especially in jewelry
diamonds in a setting of 24-karat gold What is the price of gold? miners digging for gold solid/pure goldsee also fool's gold
2 [noncount] : gold coins
a bag of goldoften used figuratively All the gold [=money, wealth] in the world won't make you happy. She's chasing after a pot of gold (at the end of the rainbow). [=something impossible to get or achieve]
3 [count, noncount] : a deep yellow color — see color picture
4 [count] : gold medal
She hopes to bring home a gold. She is going for the gold. [=trying to win the gold medal]
(as) good as gold
: very good
The children were as good as gold this morning. His word is as good as gold. [=you can always trust him to do what he says he will do]
strike goldsee 1strike
worth your weight in gold
: very useful, valuable, or important
Good teachers are worth their weight in gold. An experience like that is worth its weight in gold.
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