• (RP) IPA: /ɡəʊld/, [ɡɔʊ(ɫ)d], [ɡɒʊ(ɫ)d]
• (America) enPR: gōld, IPA: /ɡoʊld/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ɡaʉld/, [ɡɒʊ(ɫ)d]
• (obsolete) IPA: /ɡuːld/

From Middle English gold, from Old English gold, from Proto-West Germanic *golþ, from Proto-Germanic *gulþą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰl̥h₃tóm, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃-.

gold

1. (uncountable) A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au.
2. (countable or uncountable) A coin or coinage made of this material, or supposedly so.

   The pirates were searching for gold.

3. (uncountable) A deep yellow colour, resembling the metal gold.

    

    

4. (countable) The bullseye of an archery target.

   Daniel hit the gold to win the contest.

5. (countable) A gold medal.

   France has won three golds and five silvers.

6. (figuratively) Anything or anyone that is very valuable.

   Synonyms: good as gold

   That food mixer you gave me is absolute gold, mate!

7. (slang, in the plural) A grill jewellery worn on front teeth made of gold.

• aurum
• E175 when used as a food colouring

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gold (not comparable)

1. Made of gold.

   Synonyms: golden

   a gold chain

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC ↗:

     Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. […] A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.

2. Having gold of gold.

   Synonyms: golden

   gold sticker

   gold socks

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC ↗:

     Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.

3. (of commercial services) Premium, superior.
4. Of a musical recording: having sold 500,000 copies.

   Coordinate term: platinum

5. (academia) Subject to or involving a model of open access in which a published article is immediately available for to read for free with no embargo period.

   Coordinate term: green

   • 2013 October 21, Peter Suber, “Open access: six myths to put to rest”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎^{[https://web.archive.org/web/20230603054429/https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/oct/21/open-access-myths-peter-suber-harvard]}, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN ↗, →OCLC ↗, archived from the original ↗ on 2023-06-03:

     Scholars who make their work green open access rather than gold never pay a fee to do so. Even when they choose the gold route, only 33% of peer-reviewed open access journals charge author-side fees.

• French: d’or, doré
• German: golden, gülden (archaic)
• Italian: di oro, d'oro, aureo, dorato
• Portuguese: de ouro, áureo, áurea
• Russian: золото́й
• Spanish: dorado, de oro, áureo, áurico, aurífero, aurígero

• French: doré
• German: golden, gülden (archaic), goldfarben, goldfarbig
• Italian: dorato aureo
• Portuguese: dourado, dourada
• Russian: золото́й
• Spanish: dorado, áureo

gold (golds, present participle golding; simple past and past participle golded)

1. To appear or cause to appear golden.

   Hyponym: gild

From gold master, a copy of the code certified as being ready for release.

gold (not comparable)

1. (programming, of software) In a finished state, ready for manufacturing.

gold (not comparable)

1. of or referring to a gold version of something

• (British) IPA: /ɡəʊld/
• (America) IPA: /ɡoʊld/

1. Surname for a goldsmith or a rich man.