• noun:   something likened to the metal in brightness or preciousness or superiority etc.

  Example: "The child was as good as gold"

• noun:   great wealth

  Example: "Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, and almost every vice--almighty gold--Ben Jonson"

• noun:   coins made of gold
• noun:   a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia
• noun:   a deep yellow color

  Example: "He admired the gold of her hair"

• adjective:   made from or covered with gold

  Example: "Gold coins"

• adjective:   having the deep slightly brownish color of gold

  Example: "Long aureate (or golden) hair"

• name:  A surname (common: 1 in 16666 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #1984)

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