Definition: a deep yellow color
Usage: an amber light illuminated the room; he admired the gold of her hair
Main entry: gold
Definition: something likened to the metal in brightness or preciousness or superiority etc.
Usage: the child was as good as gold; she has a heart of gold
Main entry: gold
Definition: great wealth
Usage: Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, and almost every vice--almighty gold--Ben Jonson
Main entry: gold
Definition: coins made of gold
Main entry: atomic number 79, Au, gold
Definition: 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
Main entry: aureate, gold, golden, gilded, gilt
Definition: having the deep slightly brownish color of gold
Usage: long aureate (or golden) hair; a gold carpet
Main entry: gold, golden, gilded
Definition: made from or covered with gold
Usage: gold coins; the gold dome of the Capitol; the golden calf; gilded icons