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golden

Pronunciation: /ˈɡəʊl.dən/

The English word “golden” has 11 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Made of, or relating to, gold.
  2. Having a color or other richness suggestive of gold.
  3. Of a beverage, flavoured or colored with turmeric.
  4. Marked by prosperity, creativity etc.
  5. Advantageous or very favourable.
  6. Relating to a fiftieth anniversary.
  7. Relating to the elderly or retired.
  8. Fine, without problems.

noun

  1. brassy drummer, brassy chub, etc. (Kyphosus vaigiensis), a fish found in southeast Asia.

verb

  1. To become gold or golden (in color).
  2. To make golden or like gold.

Etymology

From Middle English golden, a restored form (due to the noun gold) of earlier Middle English gulden, gylden, gilden ("golden"; > English gilden), from Old English gylden (“golden”), from Proto-West Germanic *gulþīn, from Proto-Germanic *gulþīnaz (“golden, made of gold”), equivalent to gold + -en. Cognate with Dutch gouden, gulden (“golden”), German gülden, golden (“golden”), Danish gylden…

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