gold medal

1. 1.

   a trophy made of gold (or having the appearance of gold) that is usually awarded for winning first place in a competition

   Broadertrophy

Questions about gold medal

What does gold medal mean?

gold medal means "a trophy made of gold (or having the appearance of gold) that is usually awarded for winning first place in a competition".

Is gold medal a common word?

gold medal 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.