gold

Adjective

• having the deep slightly brownish color of gold
  • long aureate (or golden) hair
    
  • a gold carpet
    

• made from or covered with gold
  • gold coins
    
  • the gold dome of the Capitol
    
  • the golden calf
    
  • gilded icons
    

Noun

• something likened to the metal in brightness or preciousness or superiority etc.
  • the child was as good as gold
    
  • she has a heart of gold
    

• great wealth
  • Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, and almost every vice--almighty gold--Ben Jonson
    

• a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia

• a deep yellow color
  • an amber light illuminated the room
    
  • he admired the gold of her hair
    

• coins made of gold

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  aureate , gilded , gilt , golden , Au , atomic number 79 , amber