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GOLDEN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome
Example:
a prosperous moment to make a decision
Synonyms:
favorable; favourable; golden; lucky; prosperous
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Similar:
propitious (presenting favorable circumstances; likely to result in or show signs of success)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Suggestive of gold
Example:
a golden voice
Classified under:
Similar:
euphonious; euphonous (having a pleasant sound)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Having the deep slightly brownish color of gold
Example:
a gold carpet
Synonyms:
aureate; gilded; gilt; gold; golden
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Adjectives
Similar:
chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Supremely favored
Example:
fortunate son
Synonyms:
fortunate; golden
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Adjectives
Similar:
blessed; blest (highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace))
Sense 5
Meaning:
Marked by peace and prosperity
Example:
the halcyon days of the clipper trade
Synonyms:
golden; halcyon; prosperous
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Adjectives
Similar:
happy (enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Made from or covered with gold
Example:
gilded icons
Synonyms:
gilded; gold; golden
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Adjectives
Similar:
metal; metallic (containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal)
Context examples:
Not a golden penny, exactly, but I doubt if half a million would have given more real happiness then did the little sum that came to her in this wise.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
“By Saint Paul!” said Sir Nigel, gazing with puckered eye down the valley, “there appear to be some very worthy people among them. What is this golden banner which waves upon the left?”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Across the cover was printed in golden letters Practical Handbook of Bee Culture.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The colors are white, golden, tan or gray with black markings, in either solid or mixed colors.
(Borzoi, NCI Thesaurus)
The coat is solid colored and may be red, golden, or wheaten.
(Irish Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)
They were hard and uncouth, some of them, I doubt not; and yet, seen through the golden haze of time, they all seem sweet and lovable.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I'll give you a golden guinea for a noggin, Jim.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The short coat comes in golden fawn, light fawn, brindle, silver, tiger, and apricot.
(Mastiff, NCI Thesaurus)
In truth, I was occupied by gloomy thoughts and neither saw the descent of the evening star nor the golden sunrise reflected in the Rhine.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
He threw back his head, and there he stood in the golden glow with all his old Assyrian luxuriance of beard, all his native insolence of drooping eyelids and intolerant eyes.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
