18-karat gold

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   an alloy that contains 75 per cent gold

   Broaderalloy

Questions about 18-karat gold

What does 18-karat gold mean?

18-karat gold means "an alloy that contains 75 per cent gold".

Is 18-karat gold a common word?

18-karat gold is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.