golden
Made of, or relating to, gold.
Adjective 4 meanings
Made of, or relating to, gold.
“She wore a golden crown.”
Having a color or other richness suggestive of gold.
“Under a golden sun.”
Of a beverage, flavoured or colored with turmeric.
Marked by prosperity, creativity etc.
“The Renaissance was a golden era.”
Noun 1 meaning
brassy drummer, brassy chub, etc. (Kyphosus vaigiensis), a fish found in southeast Asia.
Verb 2 meanings
To become gold or golden (in color).
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.
GOLDEN at a glance
GOLDEN has 6 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (G 2 + O 1 + L 1 + D 2 + E 1 + N 1) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,102 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with golden
All rhymesOne letter away
- HOLDEN10
- BOLDEN9
- GODDEN9
- GULDEN8
- GOLDER8
- GILDEN8
- GYLDEN11
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