gold rush

1. 1.

   a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)

   “the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line”

   Synonymsboombonanzagravygodsendmanna from heavenwindfallbunce

   Broaderhappening
2. 2.

   a large migration of people to a newly discovered gold field

   Broadermigration

Questions about gold rush

What does gold rush mean?

gold rush means "a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for gold rush?

Close synonyms include boom, bonanza, gravy, godsend, manna from heaven. 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 rush a common word?

gold rush is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.