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# gold

«gold» in Mova's school dictionary: **a soft, shiny yellow metal that is rare and costs a lot…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (gold — uncountable); adjective (gold, golden)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Gold is a soft, shiny yellow metal that is rare and costs a lot of money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gold/#m1)

2) Gold is also a bright yellow colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gold/#m2)

3) A gold, or gold medal, is the prize for first place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gold/#m3)

4) Golden means made of gold or the colour of gold; it can also mean very good, as in a golden chance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gold/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

Coins or stars counted, a colour of things, or a first-place medal (gold for 1st, silver for 2nd, bronze for 3rd). In science: gold is an element and a metal that does not rust. In stories: pirates' treasure, a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, the goose that laid golden eggs. Phrases: «gold medal», «gold star», «as good as gold», «heart of gold».

### examples

- The pirate has 50 gold coins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gold/#x1)
- She won 3 gold medals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gold/#x2)
- The teacher gives a gold star for each right answer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gold/#x3)
- A gold ring costs 200 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gold/#x4)
- People dug for gold in California and Australia long ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gold/#x5)
- The leaves turn gold in autumn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gold/#x6)
- The baby was as good as gold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gold/#x7)
- Gold does not rust, so old gold coins still shine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gold/#x8)
- "The gold piece is your prize." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gold/#x9)

### note

Usually a describing word that picks which things to count (gold coins, gold stars). Trap: do not count gold coins and silver coins together unless the question asks for all coins. Gold the metal is uncountable: «some gold», not «a gold». Myth: not everything that glitters is gold.

### In the corpora

- [Ultramarine blue, made from a stone, once cost more than gold.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/17/)
- [In the Middle Ages narwhal tusks were sold in Europe as unicorn horns and were worth more than their weight in gold.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/8/)
- [And Toad wouldn't come here alone for a hatful of gold!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/35-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-the-wild-wood/8/)
- [The letter-paper had «'Toad Hall' at the top in blue and gold».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs/23/)
- [An element is a substance made of only one kind of atom: gold is only gold atoms, oxygen only oxygen atoms.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/2-elements-and-the-periodic-table/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gold» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gold/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.