1. golden(s = adj.all) aureate, gilded, gilt, gold - having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet"
2. golden(s = adj.all) halcyon, prosperous - marked by peace and prosperity; "a golden era"; "the halcyon days of the clipper trade"
3. golden(s = adj.all) gilded, gold - made from or covered with gold; "gold coins"; "the gold dome of the Capitol"; "the golden calf"; "gilded icons"
4. golden(s = adj.all) fortunate - supremely favored; "golden lads and girls all must / like chimney sweepers come to dust"
5. golden(s = adj.all) Array - suggestive of gold; "a golden voice"
6. golden(s = adj.all) favorable, favourable, lucky, prosperous - presaging or likely to bring good luck; "a favorable time to ask for a raise"; "lucky stars"; "a prosperous moment to make a decision"
1. Made of gold; consisting of gold. [1913 Webster]
2. Having the color of gold; as, the golden grain. [1913 Webster]
3. Very precious; highly valuable; excellent; eminently auspicious; as, golden opinions. [1913 Webster]
"Angels guard him in the golden mean."
golden, adj.
1 a made or consisting of gold (golden sovereign). b yielding gold.
2 coloured or shining like gold (golden hair).
3 precious; valuable; excellent; important (a golden memory; a golden opportunity).
Idiom:
golden age
1 a supposed past age when people were happy and innocent.
2 the period of a nation's greatest prosperity, literary merit, etc. golden-ager US an old person. golden balls a pawnbroker's sign. golden boy (or girl) colloq. a popular or successful person. golden calf wealth as an object of worship (Exod. 32). golden chain the laburnum. golden delicious a variety of dessert apple. golden disc an award given to a performer after the sale of 500,000 copies of a record. golden eagle a large eagle, Aquila chrysaetos, with yellow-tipped head-feathers. golden-eye any marine duck of the genus Bucephala. Golden Fleece (in Greek mythology) a fleece of gold sought and won by Jason. golden goose a continuing source of wealth or profit. golden hamster a usu. tawny hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, kept as a pet or laboratory animal. golden handshake colloq. a payment given on redundancy or early retirement. golden hello colloq. a payment made by an employer to a keenly sought recruit. Golden Horde the Tartar horde that overran E. Europe in the 13th c. (from the richness of the leader's tent). Golden Horn the harbour of Istanbul.
golden jubilee
1 the fiftieth anniversary of a sovereign's accession.
2 any other fiftieth anniversary.
golden mean
1 the principle of moderation, as opposed to excess.
2 = golden section. golden number the number of a year in the Metonic lunar cycle, used to fix the date of Easter. golden oldie colloq. an old hit record or film etc. that is still well known and popular. golden opinions high regard. golden oriole a European oriole, Oriolus oriolus, of which the male has yellow and black plumage and the female has mainly green plumage. golden perch Austral. = CALLOP. golden retriever a retriever with a thick golden-coloured coat. golden rod any plant of the genus Solidago with a rodlike stem and a spike of small bright-yellow flowers. golden rule a basic principle of action, esp. 'do as you would be done by'. golden section the division of a line so that the whole is to the greater part as that part is to the smaller part. Golden State US California. golden syrup Brit. a pale treacle. golden wedding the fiftieth anniversary of a wedding.
Derivative:
goldenly adv. goldenness n.
N yellowness, yellow, or, gamboge, cadmium-yellow, chrome-yellow, Indian-yellow king's-yellow, lemonyellow, orpiment, yellow ocher, Claude tint, aureolin, xanthein, xanthin, zaofulvin, crocus, saffron, topaz, xanthite, yolk, jaundice, London fog, yellowness, icterus, xantho- cyanopia, xanthopsia, yellow, aureate, golden, flavous, citrine, fallow, fulvous, fulvid, sallow, luteous, tawny, creamy, sandy, xanthic, xanthous, jaundiced, auricomous, gold-colored, citron-colored, saffron-colored, lemon-colored, lemon yellow, sulphur-colored, amber-colored, straw-colored, primrose- colored, creamcolored, xanthocarpous, xanthochroid, xanthopous, yellow as a quince, yellow as a guinea, yellow as a crow's foot, warm, advancing.
alpine golden chain, dwarf golden chinkapin, golden age, golden ager, golden algae, golden aster, golden barrel cactus, golden boy, golden buttons, golden calf, golden calla, golden chain, golden chinkapin, golden clematis, golden club, golden crown beard, golden crownbeard, golden cup, golden delicious, golden eagle, golden everlasting, golden fairy lantern, golden fern, golden fig, golden fleece, golden gate, golden gate bridge, golden glow, golden gram, golden groundsel, golden hamster, golden handshake, golden heather, golden honey plant, golden horde, golden ironweed, golden larch, golden maidenhair, golden marguerite, golden mean, golden mole, golden oak mushroom, golden oldie, golden oriole, golden parachute, golden pea, golden pheasant, golden pholiota, golden plover, golden polypody, golden pothos, golden potto, golden ragwort, golden rain, golden retriever, golden rule, golden saxifrage, golden seal, golden section, golden shiner, golden shower tree, golden spleen, golden star, golden stars, golden state, golden syrup, golden thistle, golden thread, golden trumpet, golden warbler, golden wattle, golden wedding anniversary, golden willow, golden wonder millet, golden yarrow, golden years, grass-leaved golden aster, grimes' golden, hairy golden aster, hoary golden bush, little golden zinnia, maryland golden aster, prairie golden aster, sickleweed golden aster, stemless golden weed