gold

1. 1.

   made from or covered with gold

   “gold coins”

   “the gold dome of the Capitol”

   “the golden calf”

   “gilded icons”

   Synonymsgoldengilded

   Similarmetallic
2. 2.

   having the deep slightly brownish color of gold

   “long aureate (or golden) hair”

   “a gold carpet”

   Synonymsaureategildedgiltgolden

   Similarchromatic

Other forms of gold

plural

golds·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gold

What does gold mean?

gold means "coins made of gold". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gold?

gold has 1 syllable: gold. In IPA it is /ˈɡoʊld/.

What is another word for gold?

Close synonyms include amber, Au, atomic number 79, golden, gilded. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gold a common word?

gold is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with gold?

2 words rhyme with gold. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.