Definition/Meaning of gold

• English - Noun: gold (countable and uncountable, plural gold or golds) (uncountable, usually) A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79. 1936, Robert Frost, “The Vindictives”, in A Further Range: You like to hear about gold .A king filled his prison roomAs full as the room could holdTo the top of his reach on the wallWith every known shape of the stuff.’Twas to buy himself off his…
• English - Symbol: gold ☉ (alchemy)
• English - Adjective: gold (not generally comparable, comparative golder, superlative goldest) (not comparable, usually) Made of gold. a gold chain 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC: Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver…
• English - Verb: gold (third-person singular simple present golds, present participle golding, simple past and past participle golded) (transitive) To appear or cause to appear golden . 2011, Harry Nicholson, Tom Fleck, page 250: You are the sun at Noon, that golds the barley, and pulls the bee to the ling on the moor. 2011, Robert M. Ellis, “Pokhara Lake”, in North Cape: Selected Poems of a Poet Turned…
• English - Adverb: gold (not comparable) (not comparable) of or referring to a gold version of something