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| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : gohl-duhn |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈgoʊl dən |
Definition of golden
Origin :- c.1300, "made of gold," from gold + -en (2); replacing Middle English gilden, from Old English gyldan. Gold is one of the few Modern English nouns that form adjectives meaning "made of ______" by adding -en (e.g. wooden, leaden, waxen, olden); Old English also had silfren "made of silver," stænen "made of stone."
- As a color from late 14c. Figurative sense of "excellent, precious, best" is from late 14c. Golden mean "avoidance of excess" translates Latin aurea mediocritas (Horace). Golden age, period of past perfection, is from 1550s, from a concept found in Greek and Latin writers; in sense of "old age" it is from 1961. The moralistic golden rule earlier was the golden law, so called from 1670s.
- Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. [George Bernard Shaw, 1898]
- adj beautiful, advantageous
- The edge of the garment was curiously wrought with golden palm leaves.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- The whole rested on a golden image of Atlas, bending beneath the weight.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- July 25, 1889, Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone celebrated their "Golden Wedding."
- Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
- I was palsied with doubt, and the golden moments were fleeting, were fleeting.
- Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
- That is nothing at all in comparison with Rico's wedding in the 'Golden Sun.'
- Extract from : « Rico and Wiseli » by Johanna Spyri
- Cannot I carry the golden apples to the king, your cousin, much quicker than you could?
- Extract from : « The Three Golden Apples » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Did you ever hear of the golden apples, that grew in the garden of the Hesperides?
- Extract from : « The Three Golden Apples » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- I wonder if we are satisfied to have this golden day together.
- Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
- Ulf offered the young herdsman a golden ring for his reward.
- Extract from : « Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II » by Charlotte Mary Yonge
- Nor then indeed; for this is the fulfilment of what was then but a golden promise.
- Extract from : « P.'s Correspondence (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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