Definitions of gold:

  • 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)