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 Definitions of golden  [ˈgoʊl dən]  

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Definition of 'golden' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) golden
bright, metallic, or lustrous like gold; of the color of gold:
golden hair.

2.  golden
made or consisting of gold:
golden earrings.

3.  golden
exceptionally valuable, advantageous, or fine:
a golden opportunity.

4.  golden
having glowing vitality; radiant:
golden youth.

5.  golden
full of happiness, prosperity, or vigor:
golden hours.

6.  golden
highly talented and favored:
television's golden boy.

7.  golden
richly soft and smooth:
a golden voice.

8.  golden
indicating the 50th event of a series, as a wedding anniversary.

Etymology:  (1225–75)

Definition of 'golden' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (adj) aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden
having the deep slightly brownish color of gold
"long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet"

2. (adj) golden, halcyon, prosperous
marked by peace and prosperity
"a golden era"; "the halcyon days of the clipper trade"

3. (adj) gold, golden, gilded
made from or covered with gold
"gold coins"; "the gold dome of the Capitol"; "the golden calf"; "gilded icons"

4. (adj) fortunate, golden
supremely favored
"golden lads and girls all must / like chimney sweepers come to dust"

5. (adj) golden
suggestive of gold
"a golden voice"

6. (adj) golden, favorable, favourable, lucky, prosperous
presaging or likely to bring good luck
"a favorable time to ask for a raise"; "lucky stars"; "a prosperous moment to make a decision"


Definition of 'golden' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (adjective) golden
made of gold
the king's golden throne

2.  golden
warm yellow in color
the golden wheat in the fields

3.  golden
very good; = excellent
a golden opportunity


Definition of 'golden' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) golden
made of gold; consisting of gold

2. (adj) golden
having the color of gold; as, the golden grain

3. (adj) golden
very precious; highly valuable; excellent; eminently auspicious; as, golden opinions


Definitions of 'golden' The New Hacker's Dictionary 

1.  golden
[prob.: from folklore's ‘golden egg’] When used to describe a magnetic medium (e.g., golden disk, golden tape), describes one containing a tested, up-to-spec, ready-to-ship software version. Compare platinum-iridium. One may also “go gold”, which is the act of releasing a golden version. The gold color of many CDROMs is a coincidence; this term was well established a decade before CDROM distribution become common in the mid-1990s.


Translation of 'golden' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: of gold or the colour of gold
golden hair.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: goue Arabic flag Arabic: ذَهَبي Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: златен
Brazilian flag Brazilian: dourado Czech flag Czech: zlatý; zlatavý German flag German: golden
Danish flag Danish: gylden Greek flag Greek: χρυσός, χρυσαφένιος Spanish flag Spanish: dorado, de oro
Estonian flag Estonian: kuld(kolla)ne Farsi flag Farsi: طلایی؛ زرین Finnish flag Finnish: kultainen
French flag French: d'or, doré Hebrew flag Hebrew: מוּזהָב Hindi flag Hindi: सुनहरा
Croatian flag Croatian: zlatan Hungarian flag Hungarian: arany(ból való) Indonesian flag Indonesian: keemasan
Icelandic flag Icelandic: gull-,úr gulli Italian flag Italian: dorato, d'oro Japanese flag Japanese: 金 (色) の
Korean flag Korean: 금빛의 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: auksinis, aukso Latvian flag Latvian: zelta-; zeltains
Malay flag Malay: berwarna keemasan Dutch flag Dutch: gouden Norwegian flag Norwegian: gyllen, gull-
Polish flag Polish: złoty, złocisty Persian flag Persian: طلایی؛ زرین Pashto flag Pashto: دسرو، دسرو زرو، طلايى، قي
Portuguese flag Portuguese: dourado Romanian flag Romanian: de aur; auriu Russian flag Russian: золотистый
Slovak flag Slovak: zlatý; zlatistý Slovenian flag Slovenian: zlat Serbian flag Serbian: zlatan
Swedish flag Swedish: guld-, gyllene Thai flag Thai: สีทอง Turkish flag Turkish: altın, altın sarısı
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 金色的 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: золотистий Urdu flag Urdu: سونے سے متعلق یا سنہرے رن
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: bằng vàng Chinese flag Chinese: 金色

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