goldenadj.n.
/ˈɡəʊld(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈɡoʊldən/ A. adj.
I. Senses relating to gold or its colour.
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a. Made (wholly or partly) of gold; consisting of gold. Also: adorned or decorated with gold; covered or worked in gold leaf, thread, etc. Cf. gold adj. 1.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > precious metal > [adjective] > epithet of gold > made of gold
redOE
gildenOE
goldc1230
goldenc1300
goldedc1384
giltenc1450
c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1963) l. 2121 Þe goldene [c1275 Calig. guldene] croune.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvi. iv. 828 A thynne plate of þe whiche golden þredes ben ycorve.
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) vi. l. 124 (MED) Thou hast..Spared [not] ther crownys nor ther purpil weedis, Ther goldene sceptris.
a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) l. 2321 (MED) And þis goldene rebaunde was taken from here þo.
a1500 (?a1400) Stanzaic Life of Christ (Harl. 3909) (1926) l. 2793 (MED) His boke he openet forto se And fonde..‘virgyn’ writen..With golden letter.
1595 G. Chapman Ouids Banquet of Sence (1639) 18 With the goldnest arrow in his Quiver.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. i. 40 The Duke..espouseth the sea..by casting a golden ring into it.
a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 885 My Lady's gown there's gairs upon't, And gowden flowers sae rare upon't.
1833 H. Martineau Berkeley the Banker i. ii. 30 Golden guineas are rare things now.
1882 H. W. Longfellow Michael Angelo 7 Blow, ye bright angels, on your golden trumpets.
1928 Motor Boating May 100/2 A discovery of importance, such as..a bag of old golden coins.
2017 Times of India (Nexis) 22 Jan. All I have is the golden bracelet gifted to my grandmother Hilda by the Maharaja on her 18th birthday.
b. figurative and in figurative contexts, with allusion to the monetary value of gold or its use as currency. In later use frequently in the proverbial phrase a golden key opens any door and variants: money can overcome any obstacle. Now rare except in golden goodbye n., golden handshake n., golden hello n., golden parachute n. at Compounds 2a.See also golden shower n. 1.
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?c1425 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Royal 17 D.vi) (1860) 45 I am so adradde of moneyes scantnesse..Wisse me to gete a golden salve, And what I have, I wole it with you halve.
1597 N. Breton Wits Trenchmour sig. B2v Fishing with the golden hooke, which rich men onely layde in the deepe consciences of the covetous.
1615 J. Sylvester Hymn of Almes 57 in 2nd Session Parl. Vertues Reall While Great-ones..Had oft their Fingers in the Golden Pye.
1636 P. Massinger Great Duke of Florence iii. i. sig. G2 That Petition lin'd too With golden birds, that sing to the tune of Profit.
1660 W. Secker Nonsuch Professor 124 The gates of the new Jerusalem..are not got open by golden keys.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall in Poems (new ed.) II. 102 Every door is barr'd with gold, and opens but to golden keys.
1862 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. xxiii. 388 He was rich, he was enthusiastic—he believed strongly in the power of the golden key to open any door.
1941 F. Thompson Over to Candleford iv. 69 They did not call on the newly rich family. That was before the days when a golden key could open any door.
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a. Of the colour of gold; of a bright, metallic, yellow colour. More generally: that resembles gold in colour or lustre; of a yellow or yellowish-brown shade, esp. one that gleams or shines. Also: that appears gold or tinged with gold as an effect of light, esp. sunlight.The word may designate a range of shades of yellow and brown, including brilliant yellows (esp. with reference to flowers and plants; cf. Compounds 4a), light yellowish-brown shades as of blonde hair, and richer tawny browns.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > golden yellow
gildenOE
goldena1382
goldya1398
dory1398
goldc1400
goldisha1425
sunlyc1425
goldlya1450
aureatec1450
gildedc1450
giltenc1450
scorn-golda1586
Pactolian1586
aureal1587
gold colour1648
gold-coloured1674
spun gold1728
aurulent1731
aurelian1791
deaurated1818
Tuscan1830
corn-coloured1854
old gold1877
buttercup yellow1880
aureoline1881
sun gold1887
Tuscan-coloured1905
guinea-gold1938
spun-golden1978
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Esther i. 6 Of goldene colour, and of iacinctin.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 17865 To vs ther brast a golden [?c1400 Arms goldein] leme.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Golden heere, chrysocoma.
1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos vii. sig. S.ijv The golden morning bright with roset wheles dyd mounting ryse.
1633 P. Fletcher Piscatorie Eclogs i. xviii. 5 in Purple Island To sing, and dance along the golden sand.
a1641 T. Heywood Captives (1953) i. i. 1 The blackest serpents weare the goldenst skales.
1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xv. 444 Her rich vallies wave with golden corn.
1765 Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 68 The lesser species has a black body, with golden eyes, and remarkable yellow veined wings.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Leila i. ii. 8 The hair and curling beard were of a deep golden colour.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xii. 185 She saw sunshine sparkling on the water, in golden ripples.
1899 House Beautiful Oct. 224 The golden glint of the polished brass.
1908 Academy 11 Apr. 665/1 He saw the wet roofs and towers and spires suddenly glitter and shine golden in the flaming sunset.
1940 Weekly Tribune (Moulton, Iowa) 11 Apr. Her slender golden limbs were bare.
1961 Daily Mail 24 July 3/3 Wearing a long golden robe and with her dark skin invisible under a mask of golden paint, the slim 24-year-old girl..faced the sternest ordeal of her career.
2007 BBC Good Food: Vegetarian Summer 20/3 Heat the oil until a piece of bread turns golden in 60 secs.
b. Of a period of time, a season, etc.: characterized or typified by gold or yellow hues; esp. characterized by sunshine; warm and sunny.Frequently with additional implications of happiness or well-being; cf. sense A. 7.
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1613 R. Niccols Three Sisters Teares sig. Fv When in golden Summer wee doe see A dainty Palme high mounted on the head Of some greene hill to daunce for iollity.
1713 E. Young Poem on Last Day 3 See Spring's gay Bloom, see golden Autumn's Store.
1814 M. Brunton Discipline II. xvi. 125 It was on a golden summer morning that we together left my dreary lurking-place.
1892 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 23 Oct. 19/4 It was the glorious midsummer—the long golden days when the sun seems so in love with earth that he sets reluctantly.
1958 H. M. Hayward & M. Harari tr. B. Pasternak Dr. Zhivago i. iv. 110 The end of a hot golden autumn had turned into an Indian summer.
1993 National Geographic Traveler Mar. 16/2 On a golden afternoon high in northern New Mexico's timbered Sangre de Cristo Mountains, I stood beside a small lake.
2016 Daily Mirror (N. Ireland) (Nexis) 12 Nov. (Features section) 44 Shadows lengthening on a golden summer's evening.
c. Designating tobacco having a light yellow or gold colour when cured and a milder flavour than darker traditional varieties. Cf. bright adj. 4b, golden leaf n. at Compounds 2a.Earliest in golden leaf tobacco: see golden leaf n. at Compounds 2a.Frequent in the names of varieties and brands of tobacco.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [adjective] > type of tobacco
bright1660
fine-cut1755
dark leaf1829
loose-leaf1831
golden1832
1832 Genessee Farmer (Rochester, N.Y.) 18 Feb. 56/2 The late Gov. De Witt Clinton..recommended to the people of the State of New York, the culture of the Golden Leaf Tobacco, as a matter of great interest.
1875 Bristol Mercury 20 Mar. 2/1 The mode adopted by us of packing our Golden Tobaccos is being closely imitated.
1876 Times of India 14 Mar. 1/2 (advt.) Tobaccos, finest Virginia Golden Leaf and Honeydew, ‘Cream of the Crop’.
1926 Daily Mail 13 Apr. 5/5 (advt.) Rothman's Rhodesian is a large size cigarette, made from a new blend of bright, golden Rhodesian tobaccos undeniably the equal of any America has yet produced.
1939 Pop. Mech. Sept. 44a/2 (advt.) Taste our milder golden smoking or rich ripe chewing.
1979 M. Matshoba Behind Veil of Complacency in Call me not Man (1987) 191 I'm the one who smokes. Moreover I've switched to golden milds. They don't do the same amount of damage.
2018 New Zimbabwe (Nexis) 23 Apr. Zimbabwe produces a high quality golden tobacco leaf which is internationally graded just slightly below the Cuban Havana leaf and other South American grades.
d. Originally and chiefly British. Designating any of various types of sugar made from unrefined sugar cane or beet, having a light golden-brown colour and a slightly more caramel flavour than the refined white equivalent. Chiefly in golden granulated, golden caster.Golden granulated is a proprietary name in the United States.
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1982 Times 19 Apr. 3/6 One firm, Billingtons, is selling, mostly through health food shops, varieties of unrefined sugar, called respectively Golden Granulated, Demerara, Light Muscovado and Molasses.
1998 N. Lawson How to Eat (1999) 19 You can use substitute soft brown sugar to make beautiful ivory-coloured almost toffee-ish meringues, golden caster sugar if you want the ivory colour but not such a pronounced taste.
2013 Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. (Nexis) 5 Nov. (Features section) 20 Golden granulated, golden caster and golden icing sugar are the unrefined forms.
3. Of earth, a natural feature, a location, etc.: containing or yielding gold; gold-bearing, auriferous.
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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [adjective] > yielding a mineral or metal > gold
goldena1398
aureal1587
aurific1667
auriferous1744
auro-plumbiferous1816
ouncy1864
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xv. cviii. 787 Þis londe [sc. Ophir] was sometyme yclepede terra aurea ‘þe golden londe’.
?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) iii. met. x. l. 2646 Alle þe þinges þat þe ryuere Tagus ȝiueþ ȝow wiþ his golden[e] grauels..ne scholde nat cleren þe lokynge of ȝoure þoȝt.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Pactolus, a ryuer in Lydia, hauynge golden grauelle.
1615 J. Sylvester Hymn of Almes 60 in 2nd Session Parl. Vertues Reall Pactolus, Ganges, and the golden Tay.
1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 ccvi. 52 Some bound for Guinny, golden sand to find.
1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman i. 6 The Golden Mines of Mexico.
1871 Austral. Town & Country Jrnl. (Sydney) 21 Jan. 71/1 Two more golden holes have been bottomed.
1982 W. L. Heat Moon Blue Highways (1991) v. x. 203 A cafe owner, preparing boilers for supper, found two chicken craws laden with golden gravel.
2017 Edmonton Sun (Nexis) 18 Feb. a67 The glorious golden creeks along the Klondike River.
4. Designating a desire, aim, or activity which has gold as its object or focus: of or relating to gold; for gold.
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1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xxxiv. f. 420 For with their bribery and sacred golden hunger, Kings and Princes in these dayes be yll serued, the people wronged, and the wicked out of feare.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 817 He would carry them where their Golden thirst should be satisfied.
1623 R. Jobson (title) The golden trade; or, a discovery of the River Gambra and the golden trade of the Aethiopians.
1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 127 Thus ended our first Golden Adventure.
1858 J. W. De Forest European Acquaintance xiv. 141 ‘If I wanted money, I would go to California,’ said the count, with a sparkle of golden desire in his eye.
1901 Whim Oct. 88 Lord, from the vice of petty greed, Of avarice, and golden lust, Defend our country; may its creed No longer be, ‘Ingot we trust!’ Amen.
2011 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 29 Aug. (Sport) 17 Farah admits his 10,000m silver [medal] has fuelled his golden desires.
II. Senses relating to gold considered as the archetype of something of high value, quality, or significance. Cf. sense A. 1b.
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a. Of a situation, moment in time, etc.: exceedingly favourable, advantageous, or propitious; opportune; (also) full of promise, providing expectation of good. Now esp. in golden opportunity.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > an opportunity > [adjective] > very favourable
goldena1398
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. ix. xxii. 537 The dawinge is ende of þe nyȝt þat passiþ..and hatte aurora, as Isidir seiþ, as it were ‘a goldene houre’, for it sendiþ schinynge coloure as it were colour of golde.
c1500 (?a1437) Kingis Quair (1939) lviii (MED) Sluggart, for schame! lo here thy goldin houre, That worth were hale all thy lyvis laboure.
a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1593) 467 When golden opportunitie is past, no time will fit for her.
1646 J. Hall Horæ Vacivæ 20 'Tis..unsufferable..to let the Golden houres of the morning passe without advantage.
1693 S. Wesley Life our Blessed Lord iii. 98 Now wou'dst thou set thy injur'd Nation free..Now is the time, the golden moment now.
1703 N. Rowe Fair Penitent i. i. 156 I snatch'd the glorious, golden opportunity.
1796 H. Macneill Waes o' War ii. 18 A' his gowden prospects vanish'd!
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. ii. 32 At such a golden moment as this.
1884 Earl Grey in 19th Cent. Mar. 514 The golden opportunity was thrown away.
1958 Rotarian Aug. 9/2 We can open the doors to a golden future.
1993 South China Morning Post (Nexis) 26 Dec. 4 Hong Kong will be in a golden position to expand.
2018 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 12 July 66 The England captain..had a golden opportunity to score late in the 90 minutes.
b. U.S. colloquial. to be golden: to be in a good or advantageous position, esp. as a result of doing something specified; to be assured of success. Cf. sense A. 10.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > prosper or flourish [verb (intransitive)] > prosper or be successful > be assured of success
it is in a person's buttonsa1616
to have (got) it made1944
to be golden1961
to have (got) it wired1976
1961 H. Ellison Gentleman Junkie 87 I was golden. I could do no wrong.
1967 Moderator Apr. 52/2 Freeze what you don't need immediately and you're golden.
1980 Boston Globe (Electronic ed.) 18 Apr. 1 For seconds we think we're golden... We played as hard as we could.
1997 M. Clemente Riches of France 25 If you know what the following three signs mean, you're golden.
2017 @shinelovehope 29 Aug. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) He just needs to submit some items for his background check then he's golden!
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a. That resembles gold in being of high quality or value; most excellent, wonderful; superlative.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > worth > [adjective]
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dearworthc888
worthlyeOE
oughtsOE
worthfulOE
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richa1225
gildenc1225
of pricea1325
worthya1325
of (‥) valourc1330
prow1340
dearworthyc1374
of value1395
pricefula1400
presc1400
singularc1400
goldena1425
well-foundc1475
valiant1481
prized1487
prowousa1500
valuable1567
prizable1569
valorous1592
suit-worth1594
bully1600
estimable1600
treasurable1607
treasurous?1611
treasured1675
pearly1770
at a premium1828
keep-worthy1830
good value1842
a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 5650 Pictigoras hym silf reherses In a book that the golden verses Is clepid.
1498 tr. J. de Voragine (de Worde) (title) [He]re begynneth the legende named in latyn legenda aurea That is [to say]e in Englysshe the golden legende. For lyke as passeth golde in valew[e a]ll other metallys. so this legende excelleth all other bookes.
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Love in W. W. Skeat Chaucerian & Other Pieces (1897) 81 (MED) The same sees maketh smothe waters and golden sayling.
1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 90 Of waters of vertues or golden waters.
1685 J. Barclay tr. A. Johnstoun in A. Skene Mem. Royall-burghs Scotl. 260 That golden Vertue and unstained Faith Which lodges in them all these joyntly doe Concur to raise their Name and Fame on high.
1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber xiv. 286 He was a golden actor.
1838 T. Arnold Hist. Rome (1846) I. vii. 102 He had a golden wit within.
1925 J. M. Murry Keats & Shakespeare ii. 15 In this golden kingdom he was not a sojourner only, but one of the blood-royal.
1947 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe 3 Feb. 2/4 Her full, busy life was further enriched by a golden sense of humor and an alert and active mind.
2011 China Q. June 363 He was gifted with a golden mind in mathematics.
b. Of particular or fundamental importance or utility. Cf. golden rule n., golden section n. at Compounds 2b, golden ratio n. at Compounds 2b.
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society > authority > command > command or bidding > [adjective] > relating to or conveying precepts > of inestimable utility
goldena1500
society > authority > control > [adjective] > regulating > according to regulation or rule > of inestimable utility
gildenc1225
goldena1500
a1500 (?c1378) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 410 (MED) Of þis goldun bileue shulden prestis take þis reule of crist þat poul ȝyueþ to tymothe..‘hauynge fode & oþere þyngis bi whiche we ben skilefuly keuerid, be we payed wiþ þes two.’
1605 E. Askew Brotherly Reconcilem. 288 By concealing their names, we would make their golden sayings our owne, and so become theeues.
1674 R. Godfrey Var. Injuries in Physick 54 Whilst forgetting that Golden Law do as you would be done by, they make self the center of their actions.
1700 R. Johnson Praxis Medicinæ Reformata i. vi. 48 And that we may pass on to the cure of these lamentable diseases: let the following Golden precept be speedily observ'd.
1741 I. Watts Improvem. Mind i. xiv. 199 Such is that golden Principle of Morality which our blessed Lord has given us.
1850 Eliza Cook's Jrnl. 19 Jan. 180/1 People might as well attempt to find..one golden panacea for poverty.
1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. i. 13 ‘When you have got too much to do, don't do it’,—a golden saying.
1910 A. Bennett Clayhanger ii. iii. 207 He understood that there was no golden and magic secret of building.
1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Mar. 178/2 He..admits that his golden motto needs to be modified.
2012 Daily Rec. (Nexis) 3 Mar. 6 My golden saying is ‘fresh is best’.
c. Of particular perfection or significance; ideal. Hence: constituting a goal to be aimed at or attained; desirable. Cf. golden mean n. 1.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > absence of prejudice > [adjective] > occupying middle position
neutral1494
commoderate1590
neutera1591
mediatinga1729
unmarked1791
goldena1817
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [adjective] > ideal
ideal1609
dreamlike1615
abstract1625
preterpluperfect1652
idealized1810
goldena1817
pluperfect1831
dream1884
fairy-tale-ish1884
dreamy1892
fairy tale1904
pluterperfect1908
fairy story1913
a1817 T. Dwight Trav. New-Eng. & N.-Y. (1821) II. 269 That middle state of property, which so long, and so often, has been termed Golden.
1875 Belfast News Let. 14 Oct. Some will think I have gone too far..others that I go not far enough; and if so, it may be some evidence of having taken the golden line between, by which I would gladly steer.
1909 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 22 June 8/2 Self reverence—that golden balance between conceit and self-depreciation, follows close on self knowledge.
1994 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Jrnl. 20 May c3/3 Everyone has a ‘golden weight’—a figure on the scale which you feel is ideal for your shape and size.
2017 Bristol Post (Nexis) 14 Apr. 58 We always knew 93 points was the golden figure to attain.
7. Of an age, era, or period of time: notable for prosperity, good fortune, or success; characterized by well-being or happiness. Cf. golden age n. 1.In early use frequently in golden world, with reference to the Golden Age of human history as imagined in ancient Greek and Roman thought (see golden age n. 1a); cf. world n. 5b.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > [adjective] > characterized by prosperity > of times or places
golden?a1439
wealthyc1460
Saturnian1592
silver1659
millenary1700
heroic1793
Pericleana1822
flush1840
millennial1859
belle époque1957
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) vii. l. 1209 (MED) This goldene world long while did endure.
1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates sig. Bijv Then they called a parliament (as though the golden worlde shuld come agayne).
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xxv That golden worlde of Tully.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 v. iii. 98 Tidings do I bring, and luckie ioyes, and golden times. View more context for this quotation
1661 A. Cowley Vision Cromwell 62 The golden times of our late Princes.
1700 A. Dastor de Laussac Char. of True Church 3 That Faith which Christianity enjoy'd in the golden days of the Church.
1775 E. Burke Corr. (1844) II. 90 Your gentleman does well to call the days of Lord Clare golden.
1861 J. S. Brewer Giraldi Cambrensis Opera I. Pref. The golden era of Metropolitanism had dawned.
1888 J. B. Wiggin Wild Artist in Boston xvi. 123 So the golden hours passed on, with kind words from friends..and all of the blessing of home and friends.
1914 Bookman Apr. 189 (headline) In good King George's golden reign.
1929 Travel Jan. 36/1 The golden era of whaling extended approximately from 1830 to 1860.
2005 J. K. Rowling Harry Potter & Half-blood Prince xxx. 607 There was still one last golden day of peace left to enjoy with Ron and Hermione.
8. Superficially or misleadingly attractive; fair-seeming.
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1543 Chron. J. Hardyng f. xv And kynge Edwarde beynge rauished with their golden promises, thoughte nothyng more payneful or wretched, then to tary one daye lenger.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xxxij Beleuinge no fraude nor deceate to be hid or cloked vndre this golden tale.
1655 Duchess of Newcastle Worlds Olio 98 Silver Vows, Gilded Promises, and Golden Expectations, make a glorious shew.
a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. (1764) I. 295 No golden promise of your faithless muse.
1825 H. St. G. Tucker Rev. Financial Sit. East India Company i. 42 Those golden assurances have not been realised, which promised us a long continuance of peace and security.
1888 T. Roosevelt Gouverneur Morris (1898) x. 227 They were of necessity disappointed in the golden prospects held out to them.
1914 W. Lippmann Drift & Mastery ix. 173 What they know of it [sc. early America] comes to them filtered through the golden lies of school-books.
2016 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 28 June 42 The golden promises they made have mostly been exposed as lies.
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a. Of music or sound: rich and resonant.In figurative context in quot. 1575.
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1575 U. Fulwell Flower of Fame 58 When Fame rang out her Larum bell of glorious golden sounde.
1743 P. Francis tr. Horace Odes, Epodes, & Carmen Seculare II. iii. iv. 3 On the Voice high-rais'd, the breathing Flute, The Lyre of golden Tone, or sweet Phoebean Lute.
1864 W. Sandys Hist. Violin xv. 199 The tone of the first and second strings was lively, bright, and piercing, a dry golden sound.
1921 W. N. Taft On Secret Service (2011) vi. 92 The first golden notes of a violin played by a master hand.
1961 Musical Times 102 161/2 Verdi's famous dialogue of trumpets on-stage and trumpets off-stage became no mere acoustical trick but a glory of controlled golden sound.
2013 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 26 Nov. 41 Great beauty and tone in the solo violin elicited a sweeping sonority of rich colours across the orchestra with velvety high strings, strong celli and basses and a golden timbre from the woodwind.
b. Of a person's voice, esp. a singing voice: rich and smooth.
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1600 S. Nicholson Acolastus his After-witte sig. D1v None must plucke the Redrose of her prime, But he that gaines her with a golden voyce.
?1760 J. Langhorne Poems Several Occasions 5 The golden Voice of Song, That charms the gloomy Partner of his Birth, That soothes Despaire and Pain, he hears no more.
1831 Examiner 27 Feb. 132/1 When I last heard the music, coz, of that golden voice of thine.
1877 Boston Daily Advertiser 23 Oct. 1/10 Airs..so often given here by golden voices trained in every refinement of the vocal art.
1931 Music Supervisors' Jrnl. Mar. 21/1 The soloist was a really great singer and was not wasting her golden tones on the stage supes.
1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 15 Oct. a 1 In addition to being a singer with a golden voice, Crosby was also a song-and-dance man, master of the ad lib and an Oscar-winning actor.
2005 R. Nidel World Music: Basics v. 271 Perhaps it is his magically golden voice, his skill as a tunesmith, and his clever accompaniment on guitar that have made him invulnerable.
10. Of a person or people: regarded as especially fortunate, gifted, attractive, or accomplished; (now) esp. considered to be the most successful, popular, or celebrated person in a particular field or context. Frequently in golden boy, golden couple, golden girl. Cf. golden generation n. at Compounds 2a.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [noun] > one who or that which is successful > one who > and popular
golden boy1658
golden girl1832
It girl1927
It boy1929
golden couple2015
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iv. ii. 2214 Golden Lads, and Girles all must, As Chimney-Sweepers come to dust.
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) ii. xvi. 1078 He should be called the Golden boy of fortune, and the darling of prosperity.
1726 C. Johnson Female Fortune-teller iii. 61 Say my Boy, my golden Boy of Fortune, did I not play my Part well?
1832 B. Cornwall Golden Girl in Spectator 25 Aug. 809/2 Lucy is a golden girl, But a man should woo her; they who seek her, shrink aback, When they should like storms, pursue her.
1885 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 11 May 3/2 Foster is a Golden boy, with few superiors anywhere in his line.
1964 ‘J. Welcome’ Hard to Handle viii. 91 Poor dear Richard... What a change from being the golden boy of English racing.
1973 Negro Amer. Lit. Forum 7 41/2 She parades before her peers, enjoying the role of the ‘golden child’.
2015 K. Meader Playing with Fire 40 She had thought they were the golden couple... A match made in the pages of a glossy lifestyle magazine.
11. Designating a particularly important anniversary (now spec. the 50th anniversary) of a significant event, as a wedding, the accession of a monarch, etc. Chiefly in golden anniversary, golden jubilee, golden wedding. Cf. anniversary n. 2a, jubilee n. 3, wedding n. 2b.In early use probably in general sense, ‘important, excellent, remarkable’; cf. sense A. 6a.
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1654 J. Ellistone & J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme Mysterium Magnum xl. 280 The true Golden Jubilee-year of the Marriage of the Lamb ariseth up among them.
1752 W. Goodall Adventures Capt. Greenland II. iv. vi. 53 Many Days of Feasting and Jollity were spent in the Celebration of this golden Jubilee.
1837 Metropolitan Mag. June 174 The party from Königgratz was accompanied by an old married pair, who celebrated their golden anniversary of fifty years' happy marriage on the same occasion.
1895 Goshen (Indiana) Weekly News 23 Nov. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Frank of Ligonier, celebrated their golden wedding, last night.
1920 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 20 511 Mercy Hospital celebrated its golden anniversary December 28, at which time the nurses home..was dedicated.
1955 Radio Times 22 Apr. 32/3 All this week magicians from all over the world are gathering to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the Magic Circle.
1999 BBK (Birkbeck College, Univ. of London) Dec. 18/2 [They] have just celebrated their golden wedding anniversary.
2012 Independent 4 June 5/3 Behind..came the gilded row-barge Gloriana, presented to the Queen in 2002 for her Golden Jubilee.
12. Characterized by, producing, or providing wealth; affluent, wealthy; profitable. Cf. golden mile n. 1.
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the mind > possession > wealth > [adjective]
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the mind > possession > wealth > [adjective] > abounding in wealth (of places)
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1797 M. Robinson Walsingham IV. xc. 278 I have nothing to do but to marry a golden dolly, or give my creditors the go-by, with a brace of barking irons.
1800 tr. J. H. Campe Pizarro v. 54 In the hope that Pizarro had long since established himself in the golden country, on which their fondest hopes were fixed.
1849 Leicester Chron. 8 Sept. It was said that..I had organised for myself before hand a golden exile. They talked of millions remitted on my account to America and to England.
1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend I. i. xi. 101 He has come into possession of the property. I am told people now call him The Golden Dustman.
1955 Financial Times 21 June (Classified section) 11/7 The proprietor of a large and flourishing farm..in the Transvaal..with limitless scope in a score of other directions in this golden area, is reluctantly obliged to return home to England.
1978 Appeal Democrat (Marysville–Yuba City, Calif.) 10 Apr. b1/1 When silent-movie stars founded this golden suburb [sc. Beverly Hills], Rudolph Valentino was the only sheik in town.
2018 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 24 Jan. Each of Auckland's suburbs has a golden strip—a street that has the highest value of all the streets in the area.
B. n.
1. Any of various animals or kinds of animals typically having yellow, orange, or golden colouring or markings.Frequently elliptical for names such as golden eagle, golden pheasant, golden trout, etc. (see Compounds 3).
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1709 W. Dampier Contin. Voy. New-Holland ii. 74 Sea or Water-Fowls, as Men of War-Birds, Boobies,..Goldens, Crab-catchers, &c.
1841 P. Boswell Poultry-yard vi. ii. 122 The best known varieties of the pheasant are—the Golden, the Silver,..and the Common European or English.
1888 Audobon Mag. Jan. 274/2 The goldens had a business-like way of getting under a leaf and picking off the insects..as fast as their tiny bills could work.
1913 F. W. L. Sladen Queen-rearing in Eng. xi. 61 Queens that produced all goldens had been mated by a pure golden drone.
1988 B. Mason Fly Fishing iv. 81 When hooked, goldens can be as active as any other fish, depending on the temperature of the lake.
2004 Wildlife Conservation Feb. 16/2 The breeding bald eagles..should keep the goldens at bay.
2. A golden retriever dog; = golden retriever n. at Compounds 3b.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > other types of dog > [noun] > retriever
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1915 Country Life 20 Feb. 4/1 Goldens came up well, Miss Crawshay winning in both open classes with Gosmore Flax, bred by Mr. Lewis Harcourt, M.P.
1937 Cook County (Illinois) Herald 1 Oct. 1/4 The exhibitions, given by from five to eight retrievers, including Labradors and Goldens, will be taken from the acts which these dogs have given before sportsmen's shows.
1980 D. F. Tortora Right Dog for You (1983) ii. 49 I have had rare cases of excessively timid and fearful Goldens.
2010 G. G. Sucher Golden Retrievers 38/2 When a Golden is overweight, you cannot feel the ribs and you may see fat bulges over the dog's back.
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C1.
a. Modifying nouns and adjectives of colour, as golden-brown, golden-green, golden-yellow, etc.
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1555 R. Eden tr. G. F. de Oviedo y Valdés Summarie Gen. Hist. W. Indies in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 188 Their fethers are of many faire colours as golden yelowe and greene beside other variable colours.
1593 J. Napier Plaine Discouery Reuelation St. Iohn ii. xxi. 249 The golden greene Chrysoprasus.
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. vii. ii. 165 A glorious golden red like that of burnish'd Copper.
1737 Grub-St. Jrnl. 3 Feb. The sea-air, and their being shut up close, gives them that golden yellow colour we so much admire.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) IV. 172 Juice golden yellow.
1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery ii. 73 Fry them a clear golden brown in plenty of boiling lard.
1865 Earl of Derby tr. Homer Iliad xi. 777 Golden-chesnut mares.
1891 Leeds Mercury 27 Apr. 4/7 A dress of golden brown silk.
1928 Daily Express 24 Jan. 5/4 Beige and light shades of golden brown.
1961 Ebony July 105/2 (advt.) This may be why Heinz golden-yellow Applesauce & Apricots is so popular with small fry.
2006 Women's Health Oct. 99/3 Flip pancake and cook until golden brown on second side.
b. With participles forming adjectives, with the sense ‘with or like gold’, as golden-gleaming, golden-glowing, golden-wrought, etc.
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1660 A. Moore Compend. Hist. Turks 762 A couragious Horse, with a golden wrought Saddle, and Trappings set with pretious stones.
1796 T. Townshend Poems 34 And in her pearly hand a lyre She held of golden-glowing wire.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 49 Her array all golden-wrought.
1922 A. S. Way Pindar in Eng. Verse 74 The place where the golden-gleaming Fleece was hung.
2015 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 27 June 22 Golden-glowing Edison-style bulbs are suspended above the front counter.
c. Parasynthetic, as golden-locked, golden-footed, golden-hilted, etc.See also golden-headed adj., golden hearted adj. at Compounds 2a, golden-mouthed adj. at Compounds 2a.For use in the names of animals see Compounds 3.
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1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xxix. f. 348 Faire & golden locked Gineura.
1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. B7 Her silver-feathered turtle-doves, Which in their golden-wired cage remaine.
1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie i. iii. sig. C8 When some slie, golden-slopt Castilio Can cut a manors strings at Primero.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vi. 195 The golden-fleeced Sheepe.
1757 J. Dyer Fleece iii. 105 Around the globe, The golden-footed sciences their path Mark, like the sun.
1824 J. Bowring & H. S. Van Dyk Batavian Anthol. 46 Many a golden-fetter'd fool.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Palace of Art (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 139 The light aërial gallery, golden-rail'd, Burnt like a fringe of fire.
1844 J. R. Lowell New Year's Eve, 1844 in Graham's Mag. July 16/2 Blithely as the golden-girdled bee Sinks in the sleepy poppy's cup of flame.
1919 Boys' Life Dec. 33/4 His shoulders straightened and he handed the golden-hilted knife to his sister.
2003 S. Brown Free Gift Inside! 69 Blue-eyed, golden-tressed..and blessed with an incredible peaches-and-cream complexion.
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golden-coloured adj.
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1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest 3 Argirites is a kinde of Gem, that in colour and shew is like to Siluer, giuing also apparance of golden coloured Grauell.
1712 J. Mortimer Art of Husbandry: Pt. II 204 Poppies are a fine Flower for Colour... The most esteemed is the fine Golden-coloured one, which flowers in May.
1830 Maryland Gaz. 14 Oct. Her golden coloured tresses were trembling over a neck of dazzling whiteness.
2007 Best Life Dec. 63/2 Whitefish also produces a small, golden-colored roe that's mild and a bit crunchy.
golden-haired adj.
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tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. l. 830 (MED) The pomly gray [horse], for hym y vndirtake, The gray, the goldenhered, and the scued.
1762 J. Macpherson Fingal 193 Hast thou left thy blue course in heaven, golden-haired son of the sky!
1850 E. B. Browning Poems (new ed.) II. 273 Thou golden-haired, and silver-voicëd child.
2004 Sault (Sault St. Marie, Ont.) Star (Nexis) 14 Sept. b5 A golden-haired, laughing-eyed girl of 16.
golden-skinned adj.
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1587 J. Bridges Def. Govt. Church of Eng. viii. 649 The Diuel..tooke vpon him the shape of the lowly poore woorme, and golden skinned subtile serpent.
1849 Eliza Cook's Jrnl. 25 Aug. 260/2 Troops of the most picturesque black-eyed, golden-skinned men.
1924 L. Woolf Tale told by Moonlight in Rec. Colonial Administrator (1963) 261 She was a prostitute in a Colombo brothel, a simple soft little golden-skinned animal with nothing in the depths of the eyes at all.
2002 Independent 9 Feb. (Mag.) 50/1 I particularly recall spotted dick and..huge trays of golden-skinned rice puddings.
golden-spangled adj.
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1623 H. Hexham Tongue-combat 62 That beastly brauery, wherein the golden-spangled Asse struts, and thinkes himselfe better then the man that rules him.
1817 ‘An Hibernian’ Irish Emigrant II. 198 The shoals of dolphins that were to be seen darting their golden spangled forms, sporting around our ship.
1910 Weekly Irish Times 29 Oct. 16/2 The Birch, the graceful ‘Lady of the Woods’, which in its golden spangled tresses has been very beautiful.
2011 Daily Mail (Nexis) 12 Aug. She changed into..a backless golden-spangled minidress..to hit the dance floor.
golden-tinted adj.
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1798 E. Clark Ianthé I. 105 Here the golden tinted furze sheltered the scarlet strawberry that blushed beneath its leaves.
1822 New Monthly Mag. 5 189 The guests were seated in groups, some quaffing their brown shebeen and golden-tinted whiskey.
1944 J. Devanny By Tropic Sea & Jungle 130 The fine-grained, golden-tinted hickory.
2016 MailOnline (Nexis) 14 June Anna's golden-tinted locks were swept back into a chic ponytail.
C2. In fixed collocations with special meanings.Often with implications of excellence or perfection; cf. A. II.
a. † golden comb n. Obsolete a bundle of metallic golden-coloured bristles occurring at the anterior end of a marine polychaete worm of the genus Pectinaria; (also) a worm bearing such bristles.† golden earth n. Obsolete (a) an earth containing gold; gold ore; (b) the mineral yellow arsenic; = orpiment n. 1.† golden head n. Obsolete rare (a) a marine fish with golden-yellow markings on the head; cf. goldeney n. 1, gilthead n. 1; (b) the Atlantic puffin, Fratercula arctica; (c) the European wigeon, Anas penelope, the male of which has a yellowish stripe on the crown.† golden Mary n. [after marigold n.] Obsolete (a name for) the marigold.† golden star n. Obsolete a monstrance (monstrance n.2 1) used to cover or display the consecrated host at a papal High Mass. † Golden Yard n. Nautical Obsolete (with the) (a name for) Orion's Belt; cf. Golden Yardarm n.
Golden Bible n. (with the) the Book of Mormon.With reference to the fact that the founder of Mormonism, Joseph Smith, stated that the text of the Book of Mormon was inscribed on a number of gold plates which he was guided by divine inspiration to discover and translate.
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1830 Maryland Gaz. (Annapolis) 22 Apr. A work has recently been published..entitled Book of Mormon, or the Golden Bible. The author is Joseph Smith, Jr.
2011 New Yorker (Nexis) 4 Apr. 76 A discovery that eventually led to the distribution of more than a hundred million copies of the ‘golden Bible’ worldwide.
golden book n. (also with capital initials) now chiefly historical (originally and chiefly) an official register of the nobility of the state of Venice; (later also) a similar document recording the nobility of various other Italian states. [After French livre d'or (1693 in the passage translated in quot. 1693) and its model Italian Libro d'Oro (early 17th cent. or earlier).]
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1693 tr. N. de Fer Voy. & Trav. All Europe III. vii. 52 All the Authority being devolv'd into the hands of a certain number of Families, writ down in a Golden Book, which is the Register of the Venetian Nobility.
1712 London Gaz. No. 5022/6 The Senate..designs to open the Golden Book, to enter such Persons as will buy the Nobility of Venice for themselves or Families.
1830 Gentleman's Mag Sept. 197/2 The horrors of the French Revolution having extended to Genoa, the populace in 1793 went to the palace and demanded the Golden Book.
2014 Open (India) (Nexis) 23 May Whenever La Serenissima ran short of funds, it updated the precious Golden Book of the nobility so that munificent donors could be added to the existing lords and counts.
Golden Boot n. Association Football an award given to the player who has scored the greatest number of goals over the course of a season or tournament.
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1967 Irish Times 27 July 3/7 In addition to the European Cup competitions, there is a new interest planned for the forthcoming season—a ‘Golden Boot’ will be awarded to the leading goal-scorer in Europe.
1981 Times 30 Oct. 21/3 The Golden Boot, awarded to the top scorer last season in Europe, went to a Bulgarian..who scored 31 goals in 31 matches.
2002 Daily Mirror 31 May (World Cup Pull-Out) 4/1 It has left Henry, one of the favourites to claim the Golden Boot as top scorer, convinced France have the capabilities to retain their World Cup crown.
2013 FourFourTwo Jan. 93/2 Torres won the Euro 2012 Golden Boot with three goals and one assist.
2014 M. Hurley World Cup Heroes 22 Paolo Rossi ended up with the Golden Boot award for top goalscorer.
golden calf n. an unworthy or inappropriate object of worship.With allusion to Exodus 32:4, in which Aaron makes a gold idol of a calf for the Israelites to worship, while Moses is on Mount Sinai receiving the Ten Commandments.
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1575 E. Hake Commemoration Raigne Lady Elizabeth sig. C In these daies..[we] degenerate from the true knowledge of thee..vnto the consuminge nakednesse of idolatrie and playinge inordinat, before ye golden Calfe of our owne making.
1682 Poet's Complaint 3 Those worst of Atheists! who do hold There is no Deity but Gold! They..only th' Golden Calf adore.
1793 J. O'Keeffe World in Village i. i. 1 I'll never bow to the golden calf! People to get money stick at no villany or meanness.
1864 Town Crier Aug. 5/2 You go from your homes to your counting houses,..keeping your souls bound to the mill-stone,..so that from year's end to year's end your golden calf may grow bigger and bigger.
1916 Pacific Reporter 156 1121/1 Judges who feel impelled to sacrifice their sense of reason and justice upon the altar of the Golden Calf of precedent.
2014 D. C. Mann Art of helping Others i. 24 I..liked..the large house..and a healthy paycheck. But in time I discovered I had allowed those things to become a golden calf in my life.
Golden Chersonese n. now historical (with the) the Malay Peninsula. [After Hellenistic Greek Χρυσῆ Χερσόνησος; compare post-classical Latin Chersonesus Aurea (1518 or earlier; also Aurea Chersonesus).]
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1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill i. 7 And hauing passed the said gulph towards the East, & the mouth of Gangis, they discouered the other coast, at the point whereof (which the ancient call the golden Chersonesse [It. l'aurea Chersonesso]) they became Lords of the towne of Malaca.
1769 T. Smollett Present State All Nations VII. 124 It must then have been thro' ignorance or mistake, that the antients gave it the name of the Golden Chersonese.
1883 Boston Daily Advertiser 29 May 4/3 What it [sc. France] wants is the eastern half of the Golden Chersonese, the western half to go to England.
1921 McClure's Mag. Sept. 21 (title) Through the Golden Chersonese to Elephant Land.
2014 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 5 Oct. 20 Once upon a time there lived a little boy in a small town in a peninsula which was once known as the Golden Chersonese.
Golden City n. U.S. (with the) San Francisco; cf. Golden State.Probably at least partly with reference to San Francisco's swift development from 1848 onwards as a result of the California Gold Rush; cf. senses A. 3, A. 12.
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1850 Let. 11 Feb. in Illinois Daily Jrnl. 27 Apr. After a tedious and toilsome passage, we have arrived at the Golden City.
1968 Black Belt Apr. 52/1 Some 3,300 karate aficionados..jammed the stands of the Golden City's Winterland Arena.
2017 Nevada Sagebrush (Reno, Nevada) (Nexis) 7 Mar. If you don't feel up to driving to the Golden City, there are a lot of affordable ticket options for trains or buses.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > miscellaneous types > other types of mollusc
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sea cucumber1601
pirot1611
worm1621
nun-fish1661
scarlet mussel1672
sea-navel1678
redcap?1711
strawberry cockle1713
sea-finger1748
sea-nail1748
sea-acorn1755
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bubble shell1818
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1857 H. N. Humphreys Ocean & River Gardens i. ii. 16 The Pectinaria with its golden comb.
1862 C. Kingsley Water-babies v, in Macmillan's Mag. Dec. 98/2 Live cockles and whelks, and razor shells, and sea-cucumbers, and golden-combs.
1912 Proc. 7th Ann. Meeting Amer. Assoc. Museums 28 The trumpet worm (Pectinaria belgica), digging into the sand with its golden combs.
golden duck n. Cricket slang the dismissal of a player on his or her first delivery; a player so dismissed; (also) a score of nought obtained in this way (see duck n.1 7).
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1967 E. Partridge Dict. Slang II. 1149/2 Golden duck.., a batsman so unfortunate as to get out, first ball, in both innings of a cricket match..schoolboys'..since ca. 1960.
1984 J. Green Dict. Contemp. Slang 118/1 Golden duck, (Cricket use) to be given out at the first ball of one's innings.
1987 Guardian 22 May 14/5 Heald is a self-confessed sporting duffer, whose last performance on the pitch was a golden duck in a village match some 20 years ago.
2013 Cricketer Nov. 23/2 Sure enough Hayden drove Matthew Hoggard straight into Strauss's midriff for a golden duck.
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1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. iii. f.102 (margin) The coloure of the Golden earthe and a tryall of the same.
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 10 The stone Arsenick..which also they call the golden earth.
1699 tr. M. Ettmüller Etmullerus Abridg'd 109 Medicines us'd against Loosenesses... The Golden Earth found in Gold Mines dissolv'd with the Spirit of the Vitriol of Steel.
1823 T. Tooke Thoughts & Details High & Low Prices Last Thirty Years 391 These mines are near the surface, and the golden earth is several archines, each archine is 28 inches in depth.
1909 Mercantile & Financial Times 16 Oct. 2/1 An endless chain of buckets filled with gold ore from Mother Earth, emptying themselves tirelessly, ceaselessly, delving into and depositing the golden earth into the gold mill.
golden egg n. a source of continual or guaranteed success, profit, or wealth (cf. golden goose n.).With allusion to the fable of Aesop in which a goose that lays a golden egg each day is killed by its owners for the gold supposed by them to be inside it, with the result that they are deprived of the daily wealth they had previously enjoyed. Cf. to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs at goose n. 1d.Frequently as part of an extended metaphor.
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1756 Let. Side of Shannon 23 When reduced to misery and rags.., they had better been contented with a golden egg a day.
1841 Dramatic Mirror 30 Oct. 93/3 As yet it [sc. the theatre piece] has not hatched a golden egg for the manager.
1897 Los Angeles Times 14 Sept. 7/2 (headline) A golden egg. It is what the Southern Pacific calls the oil trade.
1938 Kansas City Med. Jrnl. Mar. 4/2 The golden egg of American medicine has developed and progressed.
1976 Financial Times 2 Mar. 4/7 Boeing has also hired former officers, some of whom, he said ‘look for the golden egg when they retire’.
2014 Examiner (Austral.) (Nexis) 16 Dec. 17 A reckless and irresponsible decision surely, to smash the golden egg and destroy who knows how many jobs along with it.
golden fibre n. (with the) jute, considered with reference both to its colour and its value as a commodity.
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1934 Times of India 3 July 12/1 (heading) Bengal's golden fibre: the romance of jute.
1949 Financial Times 13 Dec. 3/4 Assam's ‘golden fibre’ acreage was already five times that figure.
2011 Econ. & Polit. Weekly 46 76/2 It was but natural for British capital to look for more land to grow the golden fibre as land in Bengal was saturating by this time.
Golden Friday n. Christian Church (a name for) a Friday reserved for fasting and prayer in the Western Church; (sometimes spec.) each of the Fridays falling in the spring, summer, and autumn Ember Days (see ember n.2).In quot. 1533 the phrase the three golden Fridays (with allusion to the three Ember days called Golden Fridays) is used facetiously to refer to Good Friday alone.
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1533 T. More 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere vi. p. cclix Folke lyue in greate townes, and fare well and faste not, no not so myche as the .iii. golden frydayes that it [sic] to wyt the frydaye nexte after Palme sondaye, and the frydaye nexte afore Easter daye, and good frydaye but wyll eate flesshe vppon all thre.
1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders i. xxi. 182 Good Fryday, golden fryday, holy friday, when all men are weeping full sore and bitterly for the poore god which is kept in prison.
1801 R. Musgrave Mem. Rebellions in Ireland (ed. 2) 545 The second part of it is said to explain the twelve golden Fridays in the year; and the devotions.
1905 Westm. Gaz. 31 Mar. 12/1 To-day, being the last Friday in March, is the first of ‘the Golden Fridays’, the other two being the last Fridays in June and November.
2013 S. Ryan in O. P. Rafferty Irish Catholic Identities iii. 70 A note on the twelve ‘Golden Fridays’ on which it is proper to fast.
golden gate n. (chiefly in plural) an entrance to an especially precious, desirable, or important place; esp. the entrance to heaven (cf. pearly gates n. at pearly adj., adv., and n. Compounds 2); (figurative) a notional entrance affording access to a desirable or highly-prized state, condition, etc.
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1590 I. L. True & Perfecte Descr. Straunge Monstar 22 Then Pope that pardons others now..Shall pardon seeke, but none shall finde, nor be admitted in The golden gates of Sion sweet.
1648 Bp. J. Hall Select Thoughts xlvi. 138 The worldling may perhaps hit the way through the golden gates of honor; or down to the mines of wealth.
1715 N. Rowe Lady Jane Gray i. 9 A purer Soul, and one more like your selves, Ne'er enter'd at the golden Gates of Bliss.
1887 J. Ruskin Præterita II. xii. 422 The higher religious souls, hoping to lead me to the golden gates.
1905 L. T. Meade Other Woman v. 57 Oh, poor mother! Does she really stand at the Golden Gates waiting for me?
2007 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 24 Apr. 19 Many people, who work hard and save like fury, find it more and more difficult to enter the golden gates of home ownership.
golden generation n. a group of people of similar age regarded as being exceptionally gifted; (Sport) a generation of players considered among the greatest produced by a particular team, country, etc.
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a1638 J. Mede Apostasy Latter Times (1641) 15 They affirme that good men when they die attaine great honour and dignity, and become..wise ones; for wise ones (saith he) are only good ones, and all good ones are of Hesiods golden generation.
1896 Standard 8 Feb. 3/5 Turning to the masters of a couple of generations ago—the real ‘golden generation,’ perhaps, though no ‘golden decade’ of English Art—we have a ‘Sunset,’ by George Barret, full of rich tone.
1940 Rev. Politics 2 226 Most..knew Bryce when he was a bright jewel in a golden generation of American political science.
2004 Racing Ahead June 71/1 The Paris St Germain striker arrived on the scene too late to be part of Portugal's Golden Generation but there is no doubting his quality in front of goal.
Golden Globe n. an award given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, presented annually for outstanding achievement in film and television; (also (in plural)) the annual presentation of these awards.A proprietary name.
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1947 Daily Reg. (Harrisburg, Illinois) 27 Feb. 4/5 Rosalind Russell took home the ‘Golden Globe’ presented her by Hollywood foreign correspondents as the best actress of 1946.
1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 6 Dec. c 13 The next Golden Globes will be held Jan. 27 and will be syndicated again.
1993 Parade 3 Jan. 14/1 The photos celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Golden Globes.
2014 L. C. King Coen Brothers Encycl. 58/2 He won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in a Television Mini-Series.
Golden Gloves n. Boxing (chiefly U.S.) any of various national competitions open to amateur boxers over the age of 16.A proprietary name in the United States.
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1927 N.Y. Amsterdam News 23 Mar. 15/4 The feature clash of the 126 and 117-pound preliminaries of the Golden Gloves tourney went the scheduled distance.
1957 J. Lake & H. Giblo Footlights, Fistfights & Femmes 136 A champ's fight generally was preceded by a few preliminaries that might be compared to our modern-day Golden Gloves.
2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 4 May (Sports section) 5/1 A broken hand prevented Heard, a four-time Golden Gloves winner, top-ranked in his weight class, from partaking in a boxoff.
golden goodbye n. a substantial sum of money offered to an employee as compensation for dismissal or compulsory redundancy, or as an inducement to take early retirement; cf. golden hello n.
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1960 Times 5 Apr. 6/2 He singled out particularly for commendation measures to deal with what became known during the general election as the ‘golden handshake’ or the ‘golden goodbye’.
1992 Economist 15 Feb. 25/3 The..group, a fashion retailer, sacked its flamboyant boss..with a golden goodbye worth over £1m ($1.8m).
2011 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 30 Sept. b1/3 The golden goodbye has not gone away... The eye-popping severance package continues to thrive in spite of the measures put in place in the wake of the financial crisis.
golden goose n. a source of success, profit, or wealth, esp. one that will be exhausted if misused.With allusion to the fable of Aesop in which a goose that lays a golden egg each day is killed by its owners for the gold supposed by them to be inside it, with the result that they are deprived of the daily wealth they had previously enjoyed.
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1809 National Intelligencer & Washington Advertiser 29 Mar. We are killing the golden goose like the foolish boy in the fable; and hereafter, like Venice, Genoa and other republics, which have been once rich, great and powerful, the only vestige of our departed splendor may soon only be found in such edifices as this.
1960 William & Mary Q. 17 398 To have at last the promise of a definitive collection of his works, comparable to the publication of the Jefferson papers already well along..is to have the scholarly equivalent of an extraordinarily reliable and generous golden goose.
2013 Vanity Fair Sept. 244/3 As for her new book on aging, it could turn out to be the golden goose. An entire generation is about to turn 65.
golden handcuffs n. originally U.S. benefits or other conditions of employment structured in such a way as to discourage an employee from leaving his or her current employer.In quot. 1964 in singular.
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society > occupation and work > business affairs > management methods or systems > [noun] > benefits provided by employer
golden handcuffs1964
1964 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 4 July 22/5 The idea of an adequate pension is still..tied to the idea of ‘loyal service’ and has been aptly described as a golden handcuff.
1982 Wall St. Jrnl. 9 Feb. 16/3 Getty Oil is trying to lock ‘golden handcuffs’ on explorationists by offering them four-year loans ‘up front’ equal to 80% of an employee's salary.
2017 Times (Nexis) 30 Jan. 49 He had cleverly restructured the company, inventing the idea of ‘golden handcuffs’ to lock in key talent, and gambled on securing the broadcasting licence on quality grounds.
golden handshake n. a substantial severance payment offered as compensation for dismissal or compulsory redundancy, or as an inducement to take early retirement.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > compensation > [noun] > for termination of employment
pay-off1935
severance pay1953
silver handshake1958
golden handshake1959
lumpers1960
severance1965
1959 Times 29 June 6/5 (headline) Tax on ‘golden handshakes’.
1960 Economist 9 Apr. 179/2 There is little public sympathy for the tycoon who retires with a golden handshake to the hobby farm.
1985 P. Larkin Let. 21 Apr. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 739 I can see myself resigning in despair with no golden handshake.
2017 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 16 Mar. Received a significant golden handshake on leaving the company.
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xiv. 332/1 A Rock Fish; of some termed, Golden Head or Goldeneye, or Gilt head.
1748 L. Morris Plans Harbours, Bays & Roads in St. George's Channel 2/2 This is the Anas Arctica of Clusius..; and hath many English Names, as Pope, Mullet, Coulterneb, Golden-head, &c.
1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 154 Wigeon (Mareca penelope)..Golden head, or Yellow poll. The male is so called on the east coast of Ireland.
golden hearted adj. (of a person) good, kind, generous; noble-spirited; cf. heart of gold at gold n.1 and adj. Phrases 2.
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1819 Calcutta Jrnl. 15 July 207 Go find what you may fondly prize, A golden hearted woman.
1907 Dublin Rev. Jan. 30 She is the golden-hearted rose that held our perfect joy.
2016 Hindustan Times (Nexis) 29 Nov. A golden hearted bishop who saves many lives from the Nazis during World War II.
golden hello n. [after golden handshake n.] a payment offered at the point of acceptance, to induce a person to take up a particular position of employment.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > extra payments > inducements
golden hello1983
1983 Observer 15 May 15/8 Following the ‘golden handshake’, the ‘golden hello’ is taking root in British industry. Being paid a handsome lump sum before you even start a new job may sound too good to be true. But, last year alone, 50 top directors got such ‘golden hellos’.
1991 Sunday Times 8 Sept. 3/1 John Sculley's package when he went to Apple was a million bucks a year, plus another million for his golden hello, plus share options worth a potential $50m.
2016 Daily Tel. 12 May 7/1 Last month the head of the NHS announced a five-year plan to put general practice ‘back on its feet’, including ‘golden hellos’ of up to £20,000 for doctors to work in unpopular areas.
golden hoof n. (with the) the ability of sheep or other animals to improve the texture and fertility of land by grazing and trampling it; the use of pasturage as a means of improving land for cultivation.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > dunging > by animals
golden hoof1860
1860 Southern Cultivator Aug. 259 They [sc. sheep] are the animals with the golden hoof, enriching where they tread.
1941 M. Graham Soil & Sense iii. 47 It is presumably this essential difference between crumb structure and floury structure that has made the ‘golden hoof’ of the sheep important in consolidating land in which there is too little clay.
1957 E. J. Russell World of Soil vii. 171 So great was the benefit to the succeeding crop and to the condition of the soil that farmers regularly spoke of the ‘golden hoof’ as the best amendment for light soils.
2017 Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. (Nexis) 8 June 36 A..publication looking at sheep on arable farms and the return of the ‘golden hoof’ in low ground rotations.
golden hour n. (a) the period of time during which surgical or medical treatment should be begun in order to achieve the best outcome for a severely injured or acutely ill patient; (b) Photography the period of time just after sunrise or just before sunset when daylight is infused with more red and gold tones than when the sun is higher in the sky.For earlier uses of golden hour as an unfixed collocation, see senses A. 5a, A. 7.
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1933 Minnesota Med. 16 216/2 A clinic and paper on traumatic surgery and fractures..stressed..the ‘golden hour’ in the treatment of fractures, and this was within the first six hours. If a case goes past that time the difficulties are more than doubled.
1975 H. Hirnschall Eyes on Wilderness 93 One evening I watched the golden hour of sunset while I sat on a rock that could well have been the very same place where the inspired Great Spirit beautified the world.
1983 Pop. Photogr. June 81/1 At the golden hour—that is the first hour after sunrise, or the last hour before sunset.
2013 C. Crandall Simple Heart Cure xv. 109 The first hour is often referred to as the ‘Golden Hour’ because there is still time to revive the oxygen-starved heart.
golden knop n. †(a) (also in plural) any of various buttercups of the genus Ranunculus (cf. earlier gold-knop n.) (obsolete); (b) English regional (eastern) a ladybird (now historical and rare).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Diversicornia > family Coccinellidae > member of (lady-bird)
ladycow1583
golden knop1592
cow-lady1656
ladybird1673
lady-clock1682
lady fly1714
ladybeetle1766
ladybug1787
bishy barnabee1789
coccinella1815
soldier1848
Judycow1855
bishop1875
coccinellid1887
1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 36 Yealow Crowfoote, or golden Knop.
1673 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 59 A Bishop, the little spotted beetle commonly called the Lady cow, or Lady-bird. I have heard this insect in other places called a Golden-Knop.
1717 G. London & H. Wise Retir'd Gard'ner (new ed.) v. i. 251 (heading) Of Bassinets, otherwise call'd Golden-Knops, or Butter-flowers.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Golden-knop, the lady-fly; otherwise golden-bug. This name must be from the colour or brilliancy of the insect's head.
1919 Amer. Botanist 25 127 Golden knops applied to several species of Ranunculus.
2010 P. Marren & R. Mabey Bugs Britannica 348 Ladybirds Coccinellidae V[ernacular] N[ames]: bishop barnabee.., golden beetles (Suffolk), golden knop, goldie bird.
golden leaf n. (a) a type of tobacco grown and cured in such a way as to produce a golden colour and milder flavour than traditional dark-leaf varieties (cf. sense A. 2c); also more fully golden leaf tobacco; (b) (with the) tobacco, esp. considered as a profitable commodity.
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1832 Genessee Farmer (Rochester, N.Y.) 18 Feb. 56/2 The late Gov. De Witt Clinton..recommended to the people of the State of New York, the culture of the Golden Leaf Tobacco, as a matter of great interest.
1845 North Amer. & Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia) 15 Apr. (advt.) Tobacco—30 packages J Thomas' superior golden leaf landing and for sale.
1892 Eng. Illustr Mag. Jan. 299 The famous cockney confines his graphic chapter on the treatment of the golden leaf in England to its preparation for pipes.
1937 William & Mary Coll. Q. Hist. Mag. 17 9 Many a fortune was built on the marketing of the golden leaf.
1940 Virginia: Guide to Old Dominion (Federal Writers' Project) i. 87 Wharves that welcomed ships of commerce ready to exchange the luxuries of Europe for a cargo of golden leaf.
2017 Sunday Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 30 Apr. Tobacco companies are moving towards e-cigarettes, but there is still a demand for the golden leaf.
golden line n. (also with capital initial(s)) Latin Prosody a line written in dactylic hexameter and consisting of two split adjective–noun pairs arranged around a central verb; cf. golden verse n.An example of a golden line is aurea purpuream subnectit fibula vestem ‘a golden clasp bound her purple cloak’ (from Virgil's Aeneid 4. 139), in which aurea modifies (the subject) fibula, and purpuream modifies (the object) vestem.
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1823 Classical Jrnl. 27 285 The ‘Golden Line’ sometimes occurs twice or thrice in succession.
1903 S. E. Winbolt Lat. Hexameter Verse vii. 220 Claudian has golden lines to the verge of monotony.
2005 S. McGill Virgil Recomposed i. 14 I have located no instances where the poets..produce, for instance, a golden line.
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1608 C. Best in F. Davison et al. Poet. Rapsodie (new ed.) 56 You are the sun, you are the goulden Marie, Passing the sun in brightnesse, gold in power.
1649 R. Lovelace Poems (1864) 62 So opens loyall golden Mary.
1865 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 13 330/1 The golden Marys, or marigolds, as they are commonly called, do well, but are rather pale if they have not plenty of sunshine.
golden master n. (in the development of a piece of software) a version that is considered ready for general release; = gold master n. (b) at gold n.1 and adj. Compounds 1e.
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1988 Chinese, Japanese & Korean Syst. in comp.sys.mac (Usenet newsgroup) 5 Feb. They..probably got a copy from Apple since the system only existed in golden master.
2002 E. England & A. Finney Managing Multimedia (ed. 3) II. ix. 189 In offline projects, the golden master is the one that is actually going to be sent for replication and distribution.
2012 R. Gaskins Sweating Bullets 178 All care was taken to assure that what went on the product disks exactly matched what was on the Golden Master.
golden mediocrity n. [after classical Latin aurea mediocritās (see golden mean n.)] now rare the desirable middle ground between two extremes; = golden mean n. 1.In recent use, often with an element of disparagement; cf. mediocrity n. 4.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > condition of being mean or average > [noun] > happy medium
merry meana1475
golden mediocrity?1510
middle mean1577
happy medium1629
chastity1712
?1510 T. More tr. G. Pico della Mirandola in tr. G. F. Pico della Mirandola Lyfe I. Picus sig. d.iv The golden mediocrite the meanne estate is to be desired.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Fff1 The Christian faith..deserueth to be highly magnified, houlding and preseruing the golden Mediocritie in this point [sc. the use of reason], betweene the law of the Heathen, and the law of Mahumet, which have embraced the two extreames. For the Religion of the Heathen..left all to the libertie of argument: and the Religion of Mahumet on the other side, interdicteth argument altogether. View more context for this quotation
1797 W. Mason Poems III. 117 Thro' Life's current let me glide, Nor sink too low, nor rise too high, Safe if Content my progress guide, And golden Mediocrity.
1886 E. Hamerton Golden Mediocrity 273 He was glad to see them all happy; but then, they were French, therefore easily contented with golden mediocrity.
1979 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 50 430 That golden mediocrity which is the god of our educational system.
goldenmouth n. [after post-classical Latin Chrysostomus (see chrysostomic adj.)] an epithet of St John, Archbishop of Constantinople, an Early Church Father renowned for his eloquence and persuasiveness as a preacher; cf. gilden mouth n. at gilden adj. Compounds.
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c1400 Bk. to Mother (Bodl.) 129 Ion wiþ þe Goldene Mouþ seiþ: suche schrewes seien soþ.
1542 T. Becon Newe Pathway vnto Praier xxxiii. sig. O S. John golden mouth.
1887 T. W. Allies Throne Fisherman 320 This is borne witness to already by the Goldenmouth himself.
2003 Age (Austral.) (Nexis) 20 Dec. (Travel) 1 There are images of saints unknown to Western Christianity. Who has ever heard of St John Goldenmouth? St Nestor?
golden-mouthed adj. [after post-classical Latin Chrysostomus or its etymon Hellenistic Greek χρυσόστομος (see chrysostomic adj.)] (of a person) exceptionally eloquent or persuasive.Chiefly with reference to St John, Archbishop of Constantinople. Cf. gold-mouthed adj. at gold n.1 and adj. Compounds 1e.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [adjective] > having pleasing speech or eloquent
well-speakingOE
renablec1300
fair-speakinga1398
well-tonguedc1480
honey-mouthed1539
golden-mouthed1542
sweet-mouthed1542
fine-mouthed?1549
silver-tongued1592
silver1594
gold-mouthed1595
honey-tongued1595
nectar-tongued1596
tongue-gilt1608
feather-tongueda1618
chrysostomatical1623
dulciloquent1656
sweet-spoken1716
sweet-lipped1783
chrysostomic1816
smooth-spoken1821
superfluent1822
honey-lipped1833
nice spoken1852
articulate1892
1542 T. Becon Newe Pathway vnto Praier sig. f.v.v Hytherto haue I rehearsed ye wordes of the golden mouthed Doctor, whiche declare manifestlye of howe great vertue and strength the true and Christen prayer is.
1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. B5 Golden mouthe'd Drayton musicall.
1669 Satire vii in Variorum of Poetry J. Donne (2016) III. 386 Perhaps by golden-mouth'd Spencer too pardie.
1749 J. Brekell Divine Oracles 105 Was not the golden mouthed Orator conscious to himself that the matter would not bear inquiry?
1843 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 8 July It was obvious that in the consolations of the golden-mouthed Bishop he had sought a balm for his own wounds.
1934 D. Barnes in Nightwood: Orig. Version & Related Drafts (typescript) (1995) 263 Am I the golden mouthed St John Chrysostum..? No, I'm a fart in a gail [sic] of wind; just a humble violet under a cow pad.
1998 S. Portaro Brightest & Best (rev. ed.) 37 The golden-mouthed patriarch died in an exile made by a word and marked by an enigmatic silence.
golden number n. [after post-classical Latin aureus numerus (from 13th cent. in British sources)] any of the numbers from one to nineteen that can be assigned to each year according to the Metonic cycle (Metonic cycle n. at Metonic adj.). Now rare.The golden numbers are used in determining the date of Easter and are calculated by dividing the number of the year by nineteen and adding one to the remainder.
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the world > time > period > cycle of time > [noun] > lunar cycle of nineteen years > number of any year in
primea1387
golden number?1430
prime number1667
?1430 in J. O. Halliwell Rara Mathematica (1839) 90 (MED) Ȝour pryme schal be to ȝow a specyal doctour of dyverse conclusyons, querfore in latyn he is clepyt þe golden nownbur and begynnyȝt at one and rennyth to xix and turnyth aȝayn to one.
1561 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation ii. vi. sig. Dviv This present yeare of .1545, we haue .7. of the golden number.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. x. 431 They scrupled not to set them in the margins of their Calendars in characters of gold, whence they are stiled to this day, also the golden number.
1819 J. Stuart Hist. Mem. City Armagh App. viii. 601 The English philosopher [sc. Bede]..having found the golden number XIX. he perceived that it indicated the 3d of May.
2006 Burlington (Iowa) Hawk Eye 16 Apr. 8 d/6 One problem with the Julian calendar was that in years which have the same Golden Number, the new moon will fall on the same date—usually.
golden parachute n. Business (originally U.S.) a large severance payment or other financial compensation made to a senior company executive; a contractual agreement guaranteeing such compensation in the event that a senior executive is made redundant or dismissed.
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society > [noun] > social compact > between specific groups > specific
parachute1973
golden parachute1981
Maastricht treaty1991
1981 Observer 19 July 17 It also signed new service contracts which could, under certain circumstances, give Bailey a ‘golden parachute’ of some $8 million if ousted.
1990 Indiana Gaz. 19 July 2/1 The dream of every good executive is to have a golden parachute, so that if his company is ever sold or merged, he can bail out for a soft landing.
2016 Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 16 Dec. 8 And why do these CEOs have a golden parachute even when fired as incompetent?
golden raisin n. originally and chiefly North American a raisin made from a grape that has been artificially dried and treated with sulphur dioxide to retain a light colour.
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1878 Southern Calif. Horticulturist Sept. 363/1 White or golden raisins will be something of a novelty.
1946 Chicago Tribune 29 Oct. 23/1 There's a new ‘golden’ raisin coming to market for those light Christmas fruit cakes.
2003 Org. Style Sept. 137 Even strong leafy greens like broccoli rabe will go over well when sautéed with sweet golden raisins and pine nuts.
golden rice n. a variety of rice genetically modified to contain beta-carotene, developed to reduce the occurrence of vitamin A deficiency in populations whose staple food is rice.Beta-carotene imparts a yellow or orangish colour to the grains of such rice.
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1999 Science 13 Aug. 994/1 Described here last week at the 16th International Botanical Congress, the golden rice has been genetically engineered to contain β-carotene, the precursor to vitamin A, as well as a healthy dose of iron.
2002 S. Pinker Blank Slate (Book Club ed.) xiii. 229 These activists are also opposed to ‘golden rice,’ a genetically modified variety that could prevent blindness in millions of children in the developing world and alleviate vitamin A deficiency in a quarter of a billion more.
2013 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 25 Aug. (Review section) 7/3 The potential that the Golden Rice would cross-pollinate with other varieties, sometimes called ‘genetic contamination’, has been studied and found to be limited, because rice is typically self-pollinated.
golden set n. Tennis a set won without the winning player or team losing a single point.
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1977 News (Port Arthur, Texas) 19 Apr. 34/7 Cawley and Williams won a ‘golden set’ during a quarterfinal match with Nederland's Brad Darby and Steve Cowart.
1993 Independent 9 Apr. 32 24. The number of consecutive points won by Bill Scanlon (USA) against Marcos Hocevar (Brazil) in Florida, 1983, the only instance of a ‘Golden set’—no points dropped—in professional tennis history.
2015 J. Parent & B. Scanlon Zen Tennis 9 During the Golden Set, the thought didn't occur to Bill that ‘I've won five games in a row without losing a point’.
golden share n. a residual, non-profit-sharing stake in a limited company (usually one retained by a government when a nationalized industry is privatized), enabling the holder to veto any undesirable changes.
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golden share1982
1982 Hansard Commons 31 Mar. 329 It is shabby for a Government who purport to believe in enhancing private enterprise and releasing ensnared shareholders to embattle shareholders almost totally by means of a golden share.
1991 Managem. Today Sept. 51/2 Companies should be able to develop ‘golden’ shares that protect them from contested takeover.
2017 Sunday Times (Nexis) 12 Mar. (Business) 14 The government holds a golden share in Rolls that gives it the right to veto any takeover.
golden sherry n. a (typically medium-sweet) sherry with a rich yellow-brown colour.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > fortified wine, Madeira wine, and sack > [noun] > sherry > types of sherry
doctor1770
antimonial wine1771
Montilla1793
Paxarete1802
pale sherry1803
amontillado1804
golden sherry1830
manzanilla1843
fino1846
Bristol milk1848
brown sherry1849
solera1851
amoroso1859
brown1862
oloroso1876
Bristol cream1886
Tio Pepe1886
cream sherry1964
1830 Age 12 Sept. 293 Here our giant, turned rustic, has been ruralizing at Bowness, enjoying his fresh-caught char and sober pint of golden sherry at the Lake House.
1854 E. Twisleton Let. 3 Apr. (1928) x. 171 A Golden Sherry, then true Brown Sherry... The Golden was £70 the butt, the Brown..£100.
1957 Encycl. Brit. XX. 500/2 A ‘sweet’, ‘cream’ or ‘golden’ sherry [contains] not over 7% [grape sugar].
2008 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) (Nexis) 4 Sept. 2 One orange seems to squeeze out 3 1/2 Tbsp, so top up the liquid measure with a pale or golden sherry.
golden slam n. Sport (also with capital initials) the achievement of winning a set of important competitions in a particular sport in the same year; Tennis (also more fully golden grand slam) the achievement of winning all four major championship titles and an Olympic gold medal in a single calendar year (cf. grand slam n. 1c).In 1988, with the reintroduction of tennis as a competitive sport at the Olympics, it became possible to win all four major tournaments and the Olympic gold medal.
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1957 McKinney (Texas) Daily Courier-Gaz. 17 Sept. 6/4 Any horse that could achieve a golden slam by winning all four races would pick up an estimated $500,000.
1988 N.Y. Times 29 Aug. c 10/5 Graf has an opportunity to achieve the ultimate in tennis: a Grand Slam and Olympic gold... They are calling it the Golden Slam.
1998 Herald (Glasgow) 23 June 34 In 1988 she brought off an achievement unequalled in the history of tennis, winning a Golden Grand Slam of all four major titles plus the Olympic crown at Seoul.
2013 Yorks. Post (Nexis) 9 July The Wimbledon title took him beyond halfway in the search for tennis perfection, the golden slam, with the Australian and French titles the only ones absent from his trophy cabinet.
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1833 J. England Explan. Ceremonies Holy Week 149 He exhibits this bread upon the paten, under what is called the golden star.
1866 Irish Eccl. Rec. Jan. 165 The golden star is then raised from the paten..the Pope taking one of the two portions of the Host in his left hand.
1872 O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms 219/1 Golden Star, a monstrance used at the papal mass on Easter day.
Golden State (with the) California.Probably at least in part with reference to the state's natural richness in gold, the discovery of which led to the California Gold Rush in the period from 1848; cf. senses A. 3, A. 12.
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1847 Congress. Rec. 7 May App. 246/2 From the hills of the Golden State we will send..cattle of every breed.
1943 Crisis May 153/1 California is calling and when the Golden State beckons, few can resist.
2005 San Diego Aug. 248/2 The band's music still crystallizes our eternally conflicted feelings about the Golden State.
golden sulphide n. [after German Goldschwefel (1760 or earlier)] Chemistry (more fully golden sulphide of antimony) a golden-yellow amorphous solid, antimony pentasulphide, formerly used in vulcanizing rubber.A non-stoichiometric compound containing antimony( iii). Formula: Sb2S5 (approx.).
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1850 H. Watts tr. L. Gmelin Hand-bk. Chem. IV. xxv. 358 Golden sulphide of antimony [Ger. Goldschwefel] dissolves rapidly in cold solution of soda, forming a yellow liquid.
1922 India Rubber World May 576/1 In this last paper..it is shown that the golden sulphide is not the pentasulphide, as commonly held, but the tetrasulphide.
2011 D. L. Perry Handbk. Inorg. Compounds (ed. 2) 41/1 Compound: Antimony(V) sulfide Synonym: golden sulfide of antimony.
golden sulphuret n. [after German Goldschwefel (see golden sulphide n.)] Chemistry (now rare or disused) (more fully golden sulphuret of antimony) a golden-yellow amorphous solid, antimony pentasulphide, (formerly) used medicinally; = golden sulphide n.A non-stoichiometric compound containing antimony( iii). Formula: Sb2S5 (approx.).
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1800 Ann. Med. 1799 4 263 A clear solution is obtained, smelling strongly of sulphurous gas, from which carbonic acid precipitates 40 grains of carbonate of lime, and the sulphurous acid 14 grains of golden sulphuret of antimony.
1851 Stethoscope 1 358 During the use of the golden sulphuret, the bowels acted regularly once a day; but when the author omitted to take the medicine, he remained several days without a motion.
1891 Proc. Amer. Pharmaceut. Assoc. 37 527 Dr. Th. G. Davis recommends golden sulphuret of antimony in chronic bronchial catarrh or ‘winter cough’.
2001 CAM & Nursing Coding Man. 222 (table) Golden sulphuret of antimony.
golden syrup n. (originally) a sweet sticky syrup or treacle produced as a by-product of making refined crystallized sugar; (now chiefly) a thick, intensely sweet syrup, resembling clear honey in colour and consistency, manufactured (typically from refined sugar) for use as a foodstuff.Golden syrup, which is typically used as a topping, spread, or as an ingredient in baking, is well-known in Britain and Commonwealth countries such as Australia and New Zealand, but is less common in the United States, where corn syrups predominate.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > syrup > [noun] > in sugar manufacture > golden syrup
golden syrup1839
bullocky's (or bullockys') joy1918
1839 Times 26 Oct. 6/3 Treacle of common quality has been taken freely..but..the highest price obtainable for the best old make and golden syrup is 35s. per cwt.
1847 Indianapolis Locomotive 29 May Golden Syrup. A delicious article, for table use.
1929 Ideal Cook. Bk. 122 Anzac Biscuits..butter..golden syrup..baking soda.
2004 D. Smiedt Are we there Yet? (2007) iv. 84 A twist of deep-fried pastry injected with, soaked in and sweating golden syrup, koeksisters are one the Afrikaners' gifts to humanity.
golden ticket n. a special ticket (typically one which is gold or golden in colour) granting the holder a valuable or exclusive prize, experience, opportunity, etc.; (hence figurative) anything considered to resemble such a ticket in providing a significant opportunity, benefit, etc.
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1683 tr. F. Pallavicino Whore's Rhetorick sig. A5v The Author hopes you will not treat him after your usual manner, but that you will excuse him from that rigorous impost you exact of Strangers, and admit him into the Pit without the necessity of coming with a golden Ticket.
1790 T. Wilkinson Mem. Own Life III. 5 I dare say neither of those gentlemen ever refused a golden ticket for their separate benefits any more than I ever did?
1859 Chambers's Jrnl. 3 Sept. 159/1 In grateful acknowledgment he presented the former artist with a golden ticket... This ticket conferred the privilege of free admission to six persons in perpetuity.
1964 R. Dahl Charlie & Chocolate Factory v. 24 Five Golden Tickets have been printed on golden paper... And the five lucky finders of these five Golden Tickets are the only ones who will be allowed to visit my factory.
1975 Anniston (Alabama) Star 23 Apr. 10 c/8 A half dozen maids and young cleaning women..enviously watching those with the golden ticket out of Vietnam.
2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 Oct. iv. 13/3 A completed dissertation no longer represents the golden ticket to a future academic appointment.
golden-tongued adj. exceptionally eloquent or persuasive; characterized by such eloquence or persuasiveness; also figurative; cf. golden-mouthed adj., silver-tongued adj.
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1581 J. Nicholls Oration made at Rome sig. Hiiijv Not Cicero, the father of eloquence..not the golden tongued Chrisostome.
1645 J. Howell Δενδρολογια (ed. 3) 101 That flexanimous and golden toungd Orator.
1759 J. Bunce tr. St Chrysostom of Priesthood sig. a3 He obtained the Name of Хρυσοστομος (Golden-tongued), on account of his Eloquence.
1818 J. Keats Let. 23 Jan. (1958) I. 214 O golden tongued Romance, with serene Lute!
1941 Life 27 Oct. 87/2 In his mind he pitted the golden-tongued orator against the wiliest adversary he could fancy. That was the devil.
2015 Tampa Bay Times (Nexis) 14 Apr. 1 a A golden-tongued first-term senator lacking legislative accomplishment.
golden touch n. the ability of a person to be successful in everything that he or she does; cf. Midas touch n. at Midas n. 3.
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1853 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 228 His golden touch is as unfailing as was that of Midas, and transmutes whatever he lays hand upon.
1976 M. Braun Kincaids viii. 239 Seemingly he had the golden touch, whatever the endeavor, be it politics or business.
2006 Sydney Morning Herald 22 Apr. (Spectrum section) 8/1 If there's such a thing as a golden touch for a writer-director, J.J. Abrams seems to have it.
golden vein n. [after early modern German guldin ader (1515 in the passage translated in quot. 1527; German Goldader)] now historical haemorrhoids.Spontaneous bleeding from haemorrhoids was regarded as a natural means of therapeutic bloodletting.
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1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Dija/1 The same [sc. greate plantayn water] is good agaynste the flode & bledynge of the golden vayne [Ger. guldin adern].
1867 C. G. Raue Special Pathol. & Diagnostics 289 This is a list of the most annoying, and frequently the most depressing, features of the so-called golden vein, which is far more appropriately called ‘piles’.
1998 Eighteenth-cent. Stud. 32 106 The shared pain of the golden vein raised uncomfortable fears for the emerging bourgeois body politic.
2013 B. Duden in P. Horden & E. Hsu Body in Balance (2015) ii. 62 Healthful bleeding from the golden vein in men and periodic bleeding of women was perceived as analogous.
golden verse n. Latin Prosody = golden line n. [After post-classical Latin aureus versus (1615 or earlier in this sense).]
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1643 J. Howell True Informer 5 That that Golden Verse might be fitly applied to her then Golden times: Mollia securae peragebant otia Gentes.
1712 L. Welsted Remarks in tr. Longinus Wks. on Sublime 173 The Lines indeed seem to run pretty much into what they called the Golden Verse.
1860 Illustr. Times 24 Mar. 185/2 In English we shall never group words as in a golden verse.
2006 D. Panhuis & G. Champe Latin Grammar 206 A golden verse contains two crossed hyperbata, abAB.
golden west n. (chiefly with the) (a nickname for) a western region of a country renowned for being rich in gold deposits, wealthy, or otherwise attractive; esp. (a) the western states of the United States; spec. California (cf. Golden State); (b) Western Australia.In quot. 1858: the western part of the world, with reference to central Mexico and the gold associated with the Aztec people.In sense (a) earliest in Native Sons of the Golden West, the name of a historical preservation society founded in 1875 for native-born Californians.
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1858 Times 10 Aug. 8/3 Witness the extinction of the last vestiges of the Empire of Spain in the Golden West.]
1875 Oakland (Calif.) Daily Evening Tribune 4 Oct. The young men..born west of the Sierra Nevada Mountains since the 7th day of July, 1846, have organized an Association..known as the ‘Native Sons of the Golden West’.
1888 H. S. Foote Pen Pictures from ‘Garden of World’ 106/2 Mr. Einfalt, its publisher, is a native son of the Golden West, having been born at Weaverville, Trinity County, California.
1893 Advertiser (Adelaide) 19 Jan. 8/6 (advt.) The Golden West. ‘Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.’ Invest in a City Block, Perth, W.A.
1949 New Central European Observer 9 July 162/2 Nor can there by any doubt that in Eastern Germany, ‘the lure of the Golden West’, no longer grips the mass of the population.
1956 E. Fodor Fodor's Mod. Guides: Brit. & Ireland 400 The Golden West is really all of Connacht—Sligo, Leitrim, Mayo, Galway and Roscommon.
1989 K. Green Night Angel x. 113 Jesse's witchcraft had..[been no more evil] than any other brand of dime-store revelation or universal soothsaying in the Golden West.
2013 Sun-Herald (Sydney) 15 Dec. 69/5 The WACA members..welcomed him as one of their own,..no greater accolade for an eastern stater in the golden west.
2017 Mirror (Nexis) 11 July You could spend 16 days exploring California and the Golden West including Las Vegas.
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the world > the universe > constellation > Southern constellations > [noun] > Orion > Orion's belt
ell-wanda1522
Golden Yard1556
golden yard1556
zone1599
King's ella1605
warrior's belt1879
1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 268 Other thre stande as bullions set in his gyrdle, and are called by manye englyshe men the Golden yarde.
1675 E. Sherburne in tr. M. Manilius Sphere 31 By our English Mariners, the Golden Yard.
1754 J. Hill Urania at Mintaka Al Giacena Our sailors..call them the Golden Girdle, or the Golden Yard, the last is the more usual expression.
1872 F. G. Tuckerman in Oxf. Anthology Amer. Lit. (1939) 976/2 In hours of night and, when the night was dark, Showed him Job's Coffin and the Golden Yard, Showed the nine moonstars in the moonless blue.
1914 J. R. Kippax Call of Stars v. 189 The three stars are sometimes referred to, as the ‘Rake’, ‘Jacob's Rod’, the ‘Three Kings’ and the golden ‘Yard’.
Golden Yardarm n. Nautical (chiefly historical) (with the) (a name for) Orion's Belt.In early use called the Golden Yard.
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1899 R. H. Allen Star-names 316 Seamen have called it [sc. Orion's belt] the Golden Yard-arm.
1979 R. A. Gallant Constellations 123 Sailors once knew this trio of stars as the Golden Yard Arm.
1994 Soap Operas of Sky v. 18 European seamen named the Belt the ‘Golden Yardarm’, while tradesmen referred to it as the ‘Yardstick’.
golden years n. (a) the best or most successful period in the life of a person or thing; one's heyday; (b) the later part of the life of a person or thing, spec. one's retirement.
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1559 Mathewe Rogers' Instruction in Complaynt of Veritie sig. A.vv Your Father..for the hope of heauenly thinges..Gaue ouer all his golden yeares in prisone and in payne.
a1678 A. Marvell Misc. Poems (1681) 140 That Providence which had so long the care Of Cromwell's head, and numbred ev'ry hair, Now in its self..Had seen the period of his golden Years.
1830 Times 11 Feb. 5/1 Those enormous sums which he and his tenants have been receiving during those golden years which they foolishly hopes would have endured forever.
1905 N. Amer. Rev. Feb. 238 These were the golden years for promoters, construction companies and builders of railways, and expensive ones for the public.
1956 Humboldt (Calif.) Standard 25 Aug. (advt.) When should you start planning for your Golden Years? Read ‘At 35, I'm getting ready to retire’ next week.
1975 ‘D. Bowie’ Golden Years (transcribed from song) Nothing's gonna touch you in these golden years.
1992 S. Logie Winging It ii. 36 Aircraft technology was improving dramatically..and the market segment called ‘general aviation’ (which did not include military or airliner aviation) was seeing its golden years.
2006 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 17 Feb. 24 Nicely dressed and pink-lipsticked senior citizenesses..sat around on comfy garden furniture enjoying the merry sunset of their golden years.
b. Mathematics. In golden ratio and the names of related geometrical concepts.
golden ratio n. the ratio of a larger to a smaller quantity when this is the same as the ratio of their sum to the larger of the two quantities, equal to approx. 1.618; cf. golden section n.The precise value of the golden ratio is 1 + √5/ 2.The golden ratio has been known since the 4th cent. b.c., and occurs in Euclid ( ii. 11, vi. 30). It has frequently (although not uncontroversially) been identified as occurring in nature, as well as in art, architecture, etc., where it is often considered to determine an aesthetically pleasing proportion. One of the most famous applications of the golden ratio appears in the architecture of Le Corbusier.
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1888 Theosophist Feb. 286 The proportion of the golden ratio is most beautifully carried out in the temple of Ombos.
1931 Jrnl. Appl. Psychol. 15 316 The added lines give the complexity which the golden ratio gives.
1979 Brit. Origami Apr. 4 About 1910 Mark Barr..adopted the symbol ‘ϕ’..apparently because it was the first letter of the name of the Greek sculptor Phidias who used the Golden Ratio extensively in his work.
2008 Men's Health July 138 It's no surprise to learn that chicks dig a physique that measures up to the golden ratio.
golden rectangle n. a rectangle in which the ratio of the longer side to the shorter is the golden ratio.
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1916 E. L. Miller Pract. Eng. Composition: Bk. II xx. 121 The so-called ‘golden rectangle’, the most pleasing of all rectangular forms.
1953 Scripta Math. 19 138 The golden rectangle can be dissected into two pieces: a square and a smaller golden rectangle.
2010 Reading Teacher 63 509/2 In mathematics, the Fibonacci sequence appears in the golden rectangle.
golden section n. [after German goldener Schnitt (early 19th cent. or earlier)] the division of a straight line or rectangle into two parts so that the ratio of the whole to the larger part is the same as the ratio of the larger part to the smaller; (also) the ratio of the larger part to the smaller part (= golden ratio n.).
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the world > space > shape > symmetry or regularity > [noun] > golden section
golden section1863
divine proportion1920
the world > relative properties > number > ratio or proportion > [noun] > golden section
golden section1863
divine proportion1920
the world > relative properties > number > geometry > line > [noun] > which divides or intersects > proportion resulting from
medial section1820
golden section1863
golden mean1910
1863 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1862 533 Dr. Zeising's application..of the extreme and mean ratio, or golden section, to the division of the circle in phyllotaxis, has received a remarkable confirmation as a law of nature.
1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 220/1 Zeising..asserts that the most pleasing division of a line, say in a cross, is the golden section.
1931 T. L. Heath Man. Gr. Math. viii. 181 Proclus speaks of theorems which Plato ‘originated regarding the “section”’, and, if this ‘section’ was what came to be called the ‘golden section’,..Plato may well have had this case in mind.
1963 H. Read Contrary Experience iv. viii. 345 Certain correspondences are easily established—the prevalence, for example, in art and in both organic and inorganic matter of the proportion known as the Golden Section.
2006 A. Kuczynski Beauty Junkies vi. 106 The so-called golden section..phi..is an irrational number approximately equal to 0.61803.
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a. In the names of birds.See also goldeneye n. 1, golden-crested adj., golden-headed adj. 2, golden-rumped adj., golden-winged adj. 2, golden head n. at Compounds 2a, etc.† golden manakin n. Obsolete rare either of two South American passerine birds with golden-yellow or orange plumage: the crimson-hooded manakin, Pipra aureola, and the Guianan cock-of-the-rock, Rupicola rupicola.
golden-back n. North American (now rare) (also more fully golden-back plover) the American golden plover, Pluvialis dominica, which has a mottled golden back.
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1877 Amer. Naturalist 11 71 The bristly-thigh curlew (Numenius femoralis), the golden-back plover (Charadrius fulvus), the Totanus semipalmatus, and a species of Tringa were common to both islands.
1955 E. H. Forbush & J. R. May Nat. Hist. Amer. Birds 174 American Golden Plover. Pluvialis dominica dominica (Müller)... Other names: Black-breast; Field-bird; Golden-back [etc.].
golden-cheeked warbler n. a rare North American warbler, Setophaga chrysoparia (family Parulidae), whose plumage is predominantly black with bright yellow cheeks.
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1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 17 Golden-cheeked warbler.
1947 R. Bedichek Adventures with Texas Naturalist xx. 259 There is..one highly specialized species to which these remarks do not apply, the golden-cheeked warbler, whose breeding range is already restricted to a few counties.
2009 Metrop. Home July 65 The trees' exfoliating bark is the nesting place for 16 breeding pairs of the endangered golden-cheeked warbler.
golden cuckoo n. [after French coucou doré (1790 in the passage translated in quot. 1790)] the African emerald cuckoo, Chrysococcyx cupreus, the male of which has a yellow breast.Varieties of this have sometimes been regarded as separate subspecies or even species.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Cuculiformes (cuckoos, etc.) > [noun] > family Cuculidae > genus Chrysococcyx > chrysococcyx cupreus (emerald cuckoo)
golden cuckoo1790
emerald cuckoo1876
1790 E. Helme tr. F. Le Vaillant Trav. Afr. I. xxi. 388 I also found in this canton, several of the golden cuckoos, described by Buffon, by the name of Coucou Vert Doré, of the Cape.
1876 H. Brooks Natal iv. 136 It [sc. the emerald cuckoo] is in all probability nearly allied, if not identical, with the golden cuckoo..of the Cape.
1997 P. A. Johnsgard Avian Brood Parasites viii. 248/2 African emerald cuckoo (Chrysococcyx cupreus) Other Vernacular Names: Emerald cuckoo, golden cuckoo, green cuckoo.
golden eagle n. a large eagle found widely in Eurasia, North America, and north-west Africa, Aquila chrysaetos, the mature adult of which is dark brown with golden-brown feathers on the back of the head and neck. [After post-classical Latin chrysaetos (1599 in Aldrovandi) or its etymon Hellenistic Greek χρυσάετος; compare post-classical Latin aquila aurea (1676 or earlier: see quot. 1676).]
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the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > eagles > genus Aquila > aquila chrysaetos (golden eagle)
royal eaglec1425
golden eagle1676
mountain eagle1802
war-bird1836
war-eagle1855
1676 F. Willughby & J. Ray Ornithologiæ ii. 27 Chrysaetos Aldrovandi, Ornithologiæ lib. 2. cap. 2. Aquila fulva seu aurea, the Golden Eagle.
1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 61 The Golden Eagle..is found in..parts of Ireland, where it breeds in the loftiest cliffs.
1836 C. F. Partington Brit. Cycl. Nat. Hist. II. 451/2 The falcon is a mountaineer, not exactly a cliff bird like the golden eagle.
1927 S. Gordon Days with Golden Eagle xiv. 93 The grey or hooded crow is a far more deadly enemy to red grouse than the golden eagle.
2015 Scots Mag. Apr. 38/2 I have been watching a pair of golden eagles displaying now for some weeks.
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1782 Catal. Coll. Rare Birds Cayenne 16 Golden Manakin, Pipra aureola L.
1832 W. Macgillivray Trav. & Researches A. von Humboldt xix. 282 The rocks, among which the Golden Manakin (Pipra rupicola), one of the most beautiful birds of the tropics, builds its nest.
golden oriole n. (a) any of three Old World orioles of the genus Oriolus, the males of which are chiefly yellow with black wings; esp. the Eurasian O. oriolus; (b) U.S. the Baltimore oriole, Icterus galbula, the male of which has orange underparts and a black head (now chiefly historical).
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1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. ii. 449 (margin) Golden O [riole] .
1840 Penny Cycl. XVII. 17/1 In our own country the Golden Oriole has been found in Hampshire, Devonshire, Cornwall, near Manchester, near Lancaster.
1875 Canad. Naturalist 7 400 The Indian Golden Oriole (Oriolus Kundoo) is often called the Mango bird by British residents.
1907 ‘N. Blanchan’ Birds Every Child should Know ix. 146 (heading) Baltimore Oriole. Called also: Firebird; Golden Robin; Hang-nest; Golden Oriole.
1993 Times 10 Apr. (Weekend section) 3/1 I had heard the golden oriole's song in Spain and was almost sure that this was what it was.
2007 A. E. Kaye Joining Places i. 33 Bondspeople new to the vicinity found it alive with a medley of colorful fauna:..golden orioles, red-winged starlings, woodpeckers.
golden pheasant n. a Chinese pheasant, Chrysolophus pictus, now introduced into many countries, the male of which has a golden crest, an orange ruff, and a red body. [Perhaps ultimately after Chinese jīnjī ( < jīn metal, gold + jī chicken, cockerel); compare also jînjī, lit. ‘brocade chicken’ (both names go back to Middle Chinese and are still in use).]
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1755 tr. F.-M. de Marsy & A. Richer Hist. China ii. v. 137 Of the winged tribe the Kien ki, or golden Pheasant [F. poule d'or], lays claim to our first notice.
1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at Phasianus The golden pheasant of China, the most beautiful of this genus.
1999 Birdwatch Apr. 56/3 Up to 13 Golden Pheasants were seen at Wolferton.
golden plover n. a migratory plover of the genus Pluvialis of the northern boreal zone, having black underparts and a mottled golden back in the breeding season, now regarded as the three species P. apricaria of Eurasia, P. dominica of North America, and P. fulva of Pacific coasts; frequently with distinguishing word.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > genus Pluvialis > pluvialis apricaria (Eurasian golden plover)
green plover1550
spotted plover1750
golden plover1766
yellow plover1793
grey plover1885
squealer1888
the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > genus Pluvialis > pluvialis dominica (American golden plover)
green plover1550
whistling plover1668
golden plover1766
frost bird1803
greenback1843
prairie plover1851
prairie snipe1851
prairie pigeon1874
kolea1888
squealer1888
1766 Catal. Nat. & Artific. Curiosities 5 A Grey or Golden Plover.
1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 146 Charadrius pluvialis..(The Golden Plover)..is the most common of all, and is found throughout the whole globe.
1890 Cent. Dict. Prairie-pigeon, the American golden plover, Charadrius dominicus. Also called prairie-plover and prairie-snipe.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 908 The Pacific golden plover winters in the Sandwich Islands and nests in distant Alaska.
2009 Independent 29 Dec. 29/5 A relative of the lapwing, the golden plover is quite different in the air.
golden robin n. North American (now rare) the Baltimore oriole, Icterus galbula, the male of which has orange underparts and a black head.Cf. gold robin n. at gold n.1 and adj. Compounds 2c.
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1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont vi. 118 Golden Robin, or Goldfinch. Oriolus aureus.
1855 W. S. Dallas in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature III. 265 One of the commonest species, the Baltimore Oriole,..has received the name of fire-bird... It is also called the Golden Robin.
1991 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 7 Dec. He had been feeling good at seeing and feeding the lovely orange and black visitors, sometimes nicknamed golden robins.
goldenwing n. chiefly U.S. (now rare) (also more fully goldenwing woodpecker) the yellow-shafted flicker, Colaptes auratus auratus.Cf. gold-winged woodpecker n. at gold-winged adj. Compounds.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > genus Colaptes (flicker) > colaptes auratus (golden-wing)
goldenwing1785
high-hole1808
high-holder1813
yellow-shafted woodpecker1822
yellowhammer1826
pigeon woodpecker1844
wake-up1844
yellow-shafted flicker1855
1785 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. II. ii. 270 (heading) Golden-wing Woodpecker.
1895 Atlantic Monthly July 61 I had a call from a family of flickers or goldenwings.
2015 J. Eastman Birds Nearby 127/2 Flickers bear numerous vernacular names, including yellowhammer, goldenwing, pigeon woodpecker, and hairy wicket.
b. In the names of other animals.See also golden head n. (a) at Compounds 2a, golden knop n. (b) at Compounds 2a, etc.† golden-poll n. [ < golden adj. + poll n.1] Obsolete rare a fish having golden-yellow markings on the head; cf. gilthead n. 1.† golden ring n. Obsolete rare (more fully devil's golden ring) (originally) any of various caterpillars that feed on vines or other garden plants; (in later use) the caterpillar of the garden tiger moth, Arctia caja; cf. devil's gold ring n.† golden wasp n. [after French guêpe dorée (1764 in Geoffroy)] Obsolete a ruby-tailed wasp of the family Chrysididae.† golden wrasse n. Obsolete the corkwing wrasse, Symphodus melops; cf. golden maid n.
golden beetle n. any of various beetles with a metallic, esp. golden, lustre; spec. those of the leaf beetle family Chrysomelidae.Cf. gold beetle n. at gold n.1 and adj. Compounds 2c.
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1781 J. Barbut Les Genres des Insectes de Linné (Index) Auratus, the golden-beetle [Fr. Le Scarabé doré], Linn. no. 78.
1806 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. VI. 26 A species of peculiar beauty is the Golden Beetle, Scarabæus auratus; it is about the size of the common or black garden beetle.
1927 F. Balfour-Browne Insects iii. 78 There is a large Family Chrysomelidæ, or ‘golden beetles’, so called because many of them possess a brilliant metallic colouring.
2002 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 8 Nov. 11/2 Rachel McFadyen yesterday said that after two years of testing she was confident the golden beetle would pose little risk to native flora.
golden cat n. either of two honey-coloured or brownish wild cats, Profelis aurata of Africa, and Catopuma temminkii of south-east Asia; (formerly also) the bay cat, Catopuma badia, of Borneo; frequently with distinguishing word.These three cats were formerly much confused. [Compare French félis doré ( C. J. Temminck Monographies de mammalogie (1827) I. 120).]
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > [noun] > genus Felis > other types of
margay1775
pampas cat1827
marbled cat1840
golden cat1871
leopard cat1884
1867 Proc. Zool. Soc. 815 An adult specimen of the Golden Tiger-cat of Sumatra (Felis aurata, Temm.) received June 19th.]
1871 Proc. Zool. Soc. London 758 The Golden Cat from Sumatra, Borneo, and Nepal, [was] named by Hodgson F[elis] moormensis.
1883 D. G. Elliot Monogr. Felidæ Table xvi (caption) Temminck's Golden Cat.
1954 G. Durrell Bafut Beagles ix. 154 The Golden Cat, one of the smaller, but one of the most beautiful, members of the cat family.
2002 M. Sunquist & F. Sunquist Wild Cats of World 53/1 The African Golden Cat and the Asiatic Golden Cat were both described in the same year (1827).
golden ear n. nowrare the ear moth, Amphipoea oculea, a Eurasian noctuid moth with a golden ear-shaped marking on the forewing.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Noctuidae > genus Noctua or Cucullia > noctua auricula
golden ear1809
1809 A. H. Haworth Lepidoptera Britannica ii. 240 N[octua auricula]. (The golden Ear).
a1912 W. F. Kirby Butterflies & Moths (1913) 108 Another common species is the Golden Ear (Hydrœcia nictitans, Plate 16, fig. 8).
1936 Sussex County Mag. 10 417/2 Noctuid Moths... Golden Ear (P. moneta). Four, 17th July to 10th August.
golden fly n. now rare any of various flying insects with a metallic lustre; spec. (formerly) a ruby-tailed wasp of the family Chrysididae, and (in later use) a greenbottle fly of the genus Lucilia.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > the wasps > family Chrysididae > member of genus Chrysis (ruby-tailed fly)
golden wasp1773
golden fly1781
ruby-tail1826
ruby-tail fly1830
firetail1865
1781 J. Barbut Les Genres des Insectes de Linné 255 (heading) 6th genus. The golden-fly.
1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Golden-fly, an insect so called from its gilt body, which is generally found in the holes of old walls, the Chrysis of Linnæus.
1868 P. M. Duncan tr. L. Figuier Insect World 71 The Golden Fly Lucilia Cæsar, lays its eggs on cut-up meat.
1973 H. Laudien in H. Precht et al. Temperature & Life 364 He examined the development of the golden fly Lucilia sericata.
golden hamster n. a hamster native to arid areas of northern Syria and southern Turkey, Mesocricetus auratus (family Cricetidae), which typically has a golden-brown coat and is widely kept as a pet or laboratory animal.Domestic hamsters are descended from a single female captured in 1930 and are bred in a variety of coat colours.
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1839 G. R. Waterhouse Suppl. to Catal. Mammalia Mus. Zool. Soc. 11 Golden Hamster. From Aleppo. Cricetus auratus.
1931 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 26 Dec. 1182/2 The virus proved highly pathogenic for mice, field voles.., and the golden hamster.
2010 Observer 21 Mar. (Guide to Pets Suppl.) 16/2 There are more than 100 varieties.., the most common being the golden hamster, known as the syrian.
golden jackal n. a jackal with a yellowish coat, Canis aureus, native to south-central Eurasia and formerly thought to occur in North and East Africa.Populations in Africa are now classified as a separate species, C. anthus.
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1859 New Amer. Cycl. I. 500/1 Some of the most remarkable skins which they thus bring into the fur markets of the world are those of small carnivora of the feline [sic] species, including the dark and golden jackal, the former yielding a warm, and the latter a very handsome fur.
1954 M. K. Wilson tr. K. Lorenz Man meets Dog i. 14 There are lots of localities in the near East where Pie dogs and golden jackals abound, yet never intermingle.
2016 New Scientist 5 Mar. 9/2 The golden jackal (Canis aureus)..is spreading rapidly from south-eastern Europe and the Caucasus—thanks in part to climate change.
golden Labrador n. a Labrador retriever having a coat ranging in colour from cream to reddish-orange.The preferred name is yellow Labrador.
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1922 R. Leighton Compl. Bk. Dog xi. 172 Captain Radcliffe owned several Golden Labradors at Wareham.
1989 A. Aird 1990 Good Pub Guide 146 This warmly old-fashioned place has..a cabinet filled with foreign costume dolls, a fox's mask and brush, and a calm old golden labrador.
2000 P. Agbabi Transformatrix 67 Our golden Labrador, Petra, sloped off into the sitting room, and hid.
golden lion tamarin n. a lion tamarin having long silky golden-orange fur, Leontopithecus rosalia, found in coastal regions of south-eastern Brazil.The other species of lion tamarin were originally considered to be subspecies of this.
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1957 I. T. Sanderson Monkey Kingdom vi. 66/2 The one I viewed in captivity behaved exactly like my Golden Lion-Tamarins, screaming and chittering as soon as I came within a certain range.
1977 P. Hershkovitz Living New World Monkeys I. 845 (caption) Golden Lion-tamarin... Adult male and female in defensive pose.
2010 Scotsman (Nexis) 27 Oct. Action has been under way for 30 years to protect the golden lion tamarin.
golden maid n. either of two wrasse having golden coloration, the corkwing wrasse, Symphodus melops, and the peacock wrasse, S. tinca.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Labrioidei (wrasse) > [noun] > family Labridae > member of genus Crenilabrus (gilt-head)
aurata?1527
peacock of the sea?1527
gilthead1538
cunner1602
golden-poll1655
peacock fish1661
sea-roach1668
goldsinnya1705
goldfinny1795
golden maid1814
cork-wing1836
1814 Times 2 Feb. 3/5 A great number of the fish called Golden Maids were picked up on Brighton beach.
1817 in W. Bingley Topogr. Acct. Hundred Bosmere App. 194 Labrus, gibbus—gibbous wrasse—golden maid—frequently in the summer.
1889 Cent. Dict. at Crenilabrus C. melops or tinca is the conner, gildhead, or goldenmaid.
1974 P. Ward Aeolian Islands 106 Giovanni told me of fishing for squid on moonless nights, of bass, grouper, mullet, seabream, octopus, golden maid and moray.
2002 G. Prini in E. Murelli Breaking Digital Divide p. xix If the author has caught too many basses, a few golden maids and no mullets it is because today the sea has offered us these kinds of fish.
golden mole n. [originally after Italian talpa dorata (1780 in the passage translated in quot. 1787)] any of the blind burrowing mammals of southern Africa that constitute the family Chrysochloridae, resembling (but not related to) the true moles, and having fur with a silvery or iridescent sheen; frequently with distinguishing word.The first species to be named by Linnaeus, Chrysochloris asiatica, was mistakenly thought to have come from Siberia.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > [noun] > order Insectivora > family Chrysochloridae (golden mole)
golden mole1787
chrysochlore1847
sand-mole1850
Cape mole1889
1775–6 W. Kenrick et al. tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Animals, Veg., & Minerals IV. 91 We shall take notice of a kind of mole found in Siberia, called the Golden coloured Mole.]
1787 C. Cullen tr. F. S. Clavigero Hist. Mexico II. Diss. iv. 295 The golden mole of Siberia.
1855 W. S. Dallas in Syst. Nat. Hist. II. 490 The peculiar metallic lustre of their coats, which has given rise to the name of Golden Mole (Chrysochloris aurea), applied to the best known species.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xxi. 667 In the Cape golden mole it [sc. the hair surface] is covered with very fine lines so that it exhibits iridescence.
2013 G. N. Bronner in J. Kingdon et al. Mammals Afr. I. 242/1 The genus Chrysochloris contains three small species from the geographical extremes of the range of golden-moles in sub-Saharan Africa.
golden monkey n. any of various Old World monkeys of the family Cercopithecidae with (areas of) golden fur; (now spec.) Cercopithecus kandti of highland forests in Central Africa. C. kandti was formerly regarded as a subspecies of the blue monkey, C. mitis.
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1837 C. F. Partington Brit. Cycl. Nat. Hist. III. 259/1 The Golden Monkey (C. auratus) is golden yellow on the upper part, and pale lemon yellow or whitish on the under.
1909 Geogr. Jrnl. 34 614 This country [sc. Sze-chuan]..is of great interest on account of..its strange and little-known animals, such as the takin, serow, goral, parti-coloured bear, golden monkey, etc.
1960 Jrnl. Mammalogy 41 401 The golden monkey [occurs] in the extensive stands of bamboo on the higher slopes.
2002 Trav. Afr. Winter 42/2 More likely to be seen are the localised Golden monkey and various forest birds and butterflies.
golden perch n. a freshwater fish of Australia, Macquaria ambigua (family Percichthyidae), which is yellow or golden in colour. Also called callop, yellowbelly.
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1847 G. F. Angas Savage Life & Scenes Austral. & N.Z. I. 92 The golden perch are driven out of the rushes.
1906 D. G. Stead Fishes Austral. 97 The Golden Perch or ‘Yellow-belly’..is abundant in all the western rivers of New South Wales.
2005 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 14 May (Life section) 8/4 We chase Murray cod, golden perch and freshwater jewfish and regularly land up to 10 fish per day.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > member of family Coryphaenidae (dolphin)
gilthead1538
dorado1604
dolphin1626
golden-poll1655
goldfish1670
pudding-wife1735
river porpoise1736
river dolphin1781
pudding fish?a1808
mahimahi1905
lampuki1925
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Labrioidei (wrasse) > [noun] > family Labridae > member of genus Crenilabrus (gilt-head)
aurata?1527
peacock of the sea?1527
gilthead1538
cunner1602
golden-poll1655
peacock fish1661
sea-roach1668
goldsinnya1705
goldfinny1795
golden maid1814
cork-wing1836
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Scombroidei (mackerel) > [noun] > family Scombridae > sarda sarda (striped tunny)
gilthead1538
bonito1541
golden-poll1655
katonkel1853
1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xviii. 152 Gilt-heads or Golden-poles, are very little unlike the Gournard, save that it seems about the noddle of the head, as though it were all besprinkled with gold-filings.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xv. 353/1 A Rochet, or Rotbart, is a red kind of Gurnard, and is so called in the South parts of England, and in the East parts it is called a Curre, and a Golden-polle.
golden retriever n. a breed of large retriever with a thick golden-coloured coat, popular as a gun dog or an assistance dog; a dog of this breed.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > other types of dog > [noun] > retriever
findera1425
retriever1819
wavy1884
golden retriever1908
golden1915
goldie1980
1908 Daily Mail 13 Feb. 3/10 The pick of the kennels at Nuneham are these golden retrievers, a species of dog very little known, and first bred by Lord Tweedmouth.
1919 T. Marples Show Dogs (ed. 2) xv. 73 The following is the Golden Retriever Club's standard of points for Golden Retrievers.
1959 R. Collier City that wouldn't Die v. 66 Then he set off on patrol like a country squire inspecting his coverts—tweeds, walking-stick, golden retriever Punch trotting at his side.
2011 N.Y. Times 14 Oct. (Late ed.) c33/1 ‘The Puppy Diaries’..is her account of the first year with a..high-energy golden retriever.
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1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Golden-ring, a Worm that gnaws the Vine, and wraps it self up in its Leaves.
1913 E. M. Wright Rustic Speech & Folk-lore xii. 204 Devil's finger-ring (Nhp.),—[devil's] golden ring (Ess. Dev.),—ring (Brks. Hrf. Wil.), the caterpillar of the great tiger-moth.
golden toad n. a small true toad, Incilius periglenes, the male of which is bright orange, formerly abundant in a small area of the Costa Rican cloud forest but now apparently extinct.
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1974 Museum Activities: Director's Rep. (Chicago Acad. Sci.) No. 24. 5 Among them are the golden toad (Bufo periglenes), known only from here, the resplendent quetzal, three-wattled bell bird, [etc.]
1989 Nature Conservancy Mar. 38/1 Our first stop is the high-altitude cloud forest of Monteverde—home to the rare golden toad.
2010 Daily Tel. 9 Aug. 9/3 Colourful species of the rainforests such as the golden toad, the black and yellow climbing salamander and the scarlet frog have not been spotted by humans for more than a decade.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > the wasps > family Chrysididae > member of genus Chrysis (ruby-tailed fly)
golden wasp1773
golden fly1781
ruby-tail1826
ruby-tail fly1830
firetail1865
1773 T. P. Yeats in tr. C. Linnaeus Inst. Entomol. 192 Chrysis... The body is of a shining colour, and appears as if gilt... Geoffroy has placed them among the Vespæ..: he has, however, formed them into a separate family, under the title of Golden Wasps.
1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. 234 The golden-wasp tribe also (Chrysis and Parnopes)..roll themselves up..into a little ball when alarmed.
1922 Month Aug. 110 So, too, the great tribe of Golden Wasps, in incredible splendour, ruby, emerald and turquoise amidst the grey environment.
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1851 J. E. Gray List Specimens Brit. Animals Brit. Mus. VII. 23 Crenilabrus Melops. The Golden Wrasse.
1883 G. L. Faber Fisheries Adriatic 210/2 Crenilabrus melops, Cuv. The Corkwing, Connor or Golden Maid, Golden Wrasse, Gilt-head, Goldsinny, Goldfinny.
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a. In names of plants (esp. ones with yellow flowers) and fruits.See also golden knop n. (a) at Compounds 2a, golden oak n., goldenrod n., Golden Spur n. 2, etc.† golden crown n. Obsolete rare any plant of the (former) genus Chrysostemma (family Asteraceae ( Compositae)).These plants are now included in the genera Coreopsis and Gorteria.† golden flower n. Obsolete any of various plants of the family Asteraceae ( Compositae) having conspicuous yellow-rayed flowers; (in later use) spec. a plant of the genus Chrysanthemum. † golden-hair n. Obsolete any plant of the southern African genus Chrysocoma (family Asteraceae ( Compositae)), the members of which have yellow daisy-like flowers; esp. Chrysocoma coma-aurea. [After scientific Latin Chrysocoma, genus name ( Linnaeus Species plantarum II. (1753) 840); compare scientific Latin coma-aurea, specific epithet (1753, on the same page).] † golden herb n. Obsolete garden orache, Atriplex hortensis. [After post-classical Latin aureum holus (late 15th cent. or earlier), itself probably after classical Latin chrysolachanum (Pliny) < Hellenistic Greek χρυσολάχανον. The semantic motivation of the name is unclear.] † golden knobs n. Obsolete any of several buttercups (genus Ranunculus); (also) the marsh marigold, Caltha palustris. † golden mothwort n. Obsolete rare the yellow-flowered everlasting plant Helichrysum stoechas; cf. golden cudweed n. (a).† golden nugget n. Obsolete rare a plant of the family Asteraceae ( Compositae) having flowers consisting of yellow disc florets (perhaps Plagius grandis of the Mediterranean region).† golden rocket n. Obsolete rare the yellow-flowered annual herbaceous plant Sisymbrium irio (family Brassicaceae) (said to have flourished in London after the Great Fire of 1666); = London rocket n. at London n. s.
golden berry n. the small, round, orangish-yellow fruit of Physalis peruviana; = Cape gooseberry n. at cape n.3 Compounds 1b.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > gooseberry
gooseberry?1533
groser1548
St John's berry1561
dewberry1578
thorn-grape1578
feaberry1597
pearl gooseberry1688
wineberry1703
dayberry1736
honey-blob1746
blobc1750
groset1786
goosegog1823
Worcesterberry1923
golden berry1930
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > gooseberry > types of
pearl gooseberry1688
Worcesterberry1923
golden berry1930
1930 Times 1 Oct. 7/5 (advt.) Golden Berries.—South African Cape Gooseberries, delicately flavoured fruit in syrup.
1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 385/1 Tinned cape gooseberries are imported from South Africa (usually under the name of golden berries).
2014 Good Housek. Apr. 100/3 Sweet-sour goldenberries (Cape gooseberries) are rich in B vitamins.
golden bell n. any of the shrubs of the genus Forsythia, which have yellow flowers (see forsythia n.).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > forsythia or golden-bell
forsythia1806
golden bell1851
1851 Horticulturist June 288/1 The new hardy shrub from China, Forsythia viridissima, is too gay and ornamental, and will become too popular to be commonly known by its hard botanical name, and we propose to call it Golden Bell.
1968 N. Taylor Guide to Garden Shrubs & Trees v. 341 The golden bells are of the easiest culture in any ordinary garden soil.
2014 Burnley Express (Nexis) 25 Mar. The forsythias (golden bells) are smothered in bud.
golden chain n. (more fully golden chain tree) any of the small trees of the genus Laburnum, which have pendulous racemes of yellow flowers (see laburnum n. 1).
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > laburnum > [noun]
laburnum1567
awber1684
Scotch laburnum1776
pea tree1822
golden chain1825
gold chain1841
false ebony1892
1794 R. P. Knight Landscape iii. 62 The bright acacia, and the vivid plane, The rich laburnum with its golden chain.]
1825 H. Smith Gaieties & Gravities I. 19 A few cartloads of citizen's bones gave me a luxuriant growth of London pride, plums, Sibthorpia or base money-wort, mud-wort, bladder-wort, and mushrooms; but for laburnum or golden chain I was obliged to select a lord mayor.
1913 Garden Mag. Jan. 266/3 The common laburnum is the Cytisus Laburnum of Linnaeus and has the popular names of golden chain and bean-tree.
2007 S. E. Griest 100 Places Every Woman Should Go lxxvii 240 If visiting in May, drive seven miles south to the Bodnant Garden for the blossoming of its yellow laburnums (a.k.a. golden chain trees).
golden club n. a perennial aquatic plant having a conspicuous bright-yellow spadix on a white stalk, Orontium aquaticum (family Araceae), native to North America and cultivated elsewhere.
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1803 B. S. Barton Elements Bot. i. 286 In Calla, Dracontium, Pothos, and Golden-club (Orontium aquaticum), the florets cover it [sc. the spadix] on all sides.
1931 Good Housek. (U.S. ed.) Dec. 29/2 We swung into a vast expanse of water covered with lily-pads, goldenclub, and pitcher-plants.
2015 B. W. Ellis Chesapeake Gardening & Landscaping ix. 282/1 (caption) Ferns, iris, and native golden club (Orontium aquaticum) edge this small garden watercourse.
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1839 Sweet's Hortus Britannicus (ed. 3) 357 Chrysostemma DC. Golden crown.
1843 J. W. Loudon Ladies' Flower-garden Ornamental Perennials I. 188 (heading) Chrysostemma... The Golden Crown.
1910 Henderson's Handbk. Plants & Gen. Hort. (new ed.) 170/2 Golden Crown, the genus Chrysostemma.
golden cudweed n. †(a) the everlasting plant Helichrysum stoechas, which has bright yellow flowers (obsolete); (b) (chiefly Jamaican) the tropical American plant wand blackroot, Pterocaulon virgatum (family Asteraceae ( Compositae)), which has greyish leaves and upright stems terminating in small yellowish-white flowers (now rare).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > other composite plants
wild sagea1400
yellow devil's-bita1400
white golda1425
cotula1578
golden cudweed1597
golden tuft1597
rattlesnake root1682
Cape tansy?1711
hawkbit1713
ambrosia1731
cabbage tree1735
hog's eye1749
Osteospermum1754
ox-tongue1760
scentless mayweed1800
old man's beard1804
ox-eye1818
echinacea1825
sheep's beard1836
shepherd's beard1840
cat's-ear1848
goatweed1869
silversword1888
khaki bush1907
venidium1937
khaki bos1947
Namaqualand daisy1963
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > everlasting or immortelle
yellow amaranth1551
gold-flower1578
mothwort1578
God's flower1597
golden cudweed1597
golden mothwort1597
moth-weed1597
aurelia1598
everlasting flower1610
everlasting1633
helichrysum1664
yellowheads1712
immortal herb1731
xeranthemum1736
eternal flower1785
immortelle1832
strawflower1924
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 520 Golden Mothwort is called..in English..Golden Cudweede; being doubtlesse a kinde of Gnaphalium, or Cudweede.
1754 tr. A. Le Camus Abdeker i. 80 The Serquis is the Elichrysum, or Golden Cudweed. It is to be used after the manner of Tea.
1864 A. H. R. Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Indian Islands 783/1 Cudweed, golden: Pterocaulon virgatum.
2004 D. F. Austin Florida Ethnobot. 552/2 Jamaicans call it golden cudweed.
golden cup n. now rare any of several buttercups (genus Ranunculus); (also) the marsh marigold, Caltha palustris; cf. kingcup n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > buttercup and allied flowers > allied flowers
githa1382
nigellaa1398
gollana1400
pilewort?a1425
gold-knop1538
fig-wort1548
lucken gowan1548
melanthion1559
gold crap1571
bachelor's buttons1578
celandine1578
gold cup1578
Goldilocks1578
nigel1578
nigelweed1578
troll flower1578
peppergrass1587
golden cup1589
globe crowfoot1597
globeflower1597
winter aconite1597
kiss-me-twice-before-I-rise1664
devil-in-a-bush1722
globe ranunculus1731
turban1760
love-in-a-mist1787
love-in-a-puzzle1824
fair-grass1825
water buttercup1831
golden knobs1835
ficary1848
New Year's gift1856
bishop wort1863
fennel-flower1863
golden ball1875
1589 J. Rider Bibliotheca Scholastica 1745 An hearb called golden cuppe, or golde knap. Polyanthemon.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 303/1 Golden Cups, Ranunculus.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Golden cup. 1. Marsh marigold. The usual name. Caltha Palustris..2. Ranunculus globosa.
2006 L. Staker Compl. Guide Care Macropods xii. 99 Buttercup, Crowfoot, King/Golden cup Ranunculae.
golden-cup oak n. the maul oak (or canyon live oak), Quercus chrysolepis, of western North America, having acorns with cupules which are covered with short gold hairs (cf. golden oak n. 2(a)); (also) any of a subgroup of North American oaks of which Q. chrysolepis is the type.
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1878 Sci. Amer. 2 Nov. 279/2 The golden cup oak (Q[uercus] chrysolepis) is a puzzle to botanists; and well it may be, since it occurs as a lofty forest tree and also as a tiny bush.
1940 R. J. Preston Rocky Mountain Trees 141 (heading) Goldencup Oak.
2002 J. S. Fralish & S. B. Franklin Taxon. & Ecol. Woody Plants N. Amer. Forests xix. 240/2 The third group of North American Quercus species are in the section Protobalanus, referred to as the golden cup oaks.
golden drop n. (a) a cultivated variety of gooseberry having yellowish-green fruits; (b) (more fully Coe's golden drop) a variety of plum with yellow skin and flesh, or a tree producing such plums; (c) any plant of the Eurasian genus Onosma (family Boraginaceae), the members of which have hairy stems and leaves and pendant tubular or bell-shaped, typically yellow, flowers.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > stone fruit > [noun] > plum > other types of plum
bullacea1375
myxe?1440
prunelloa1450
bullace-fruit1530
wheat-plum1538
wheaten plum1542
pear plum1573
finger plum1577
perdrigon1582
damson plum1584
apple-plum1601
bullace-plum1608
amber plum1629
Christian1629
queen mother1629
cinnamon-plum1664
date1664
Orleans1674
Chickasaw plum1760
blue gage1764
golden drop1772
beach-plum1785
quetsch1839
egg-plum1859
hog plum1863
bladder-plum1869
prune1872
Carlsbad plum1885
apricot plum1893
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > plum > other types of
white plumc1330
bullacea1375
myxe?1440
prunelloa1450
bullace-fruit1530
horse plum1530
plum1530
wheat-plum1538
wheaten plum1542
choke-plum1556
pear plum1573
finger plum1577
scad1577
skeg1601
merchant1602
bullace-plum1608
malacadonian1608
prune plum1613
date plum1626
mussel plum1626
amber plum1629
black plum1629
primordian1629
queen mother1629
winter crack1629
myrobalan1630
Christian1651
Monsieur's plum1658
cinnamon-plum1664
date1664
primordial1664
Orleans1674
mirabelle1706
myrobalan plum1708
Mogul1718
mussel1718
Chickasaw plum1760
blue gage1764
magnum bonum1764
golden drop1772
beach-plum1785
sweet plum1796
winesour1836
wild plum1838
quetsch1839
egg-plum1859
Victoria1860
cherry plum1866
bladder-plum1869
prune1872
sour plum1874
Carlsbad plum1885
horse-jug1886
French plum1939
1772 R. Weston Univ. Botanist & Nurseryman III. 212/1 [Gooseberries, Yellow and Amber.] Jackson's Golden Drop.
1812 Trans. Hort. Soc. London 1 182 I shall take this opportunity of pointing out to the Horticultural Society the merits of a new variety of Plum, (Coe's Golden drop) as a fruit for the dessert during winter.
1871 W. Robinson Hardy Flowers 187/2 Onosma taurica (Golden Drop).—A fine evergreen perennial, quite distinct in appearance from anything else in cultivation.
1901 F. A. Waugh Plums & Plum Culture xxxv. 350 The canneries use mostly ‘Green Gages’..and ‘Egg Plums’ (which are sometimes Golden Drops).
1986 R. Baker Fruit Garden Displayed (new ed.) 200/2 Golden Drop. Early, mid-season. Neat, upright, compact habit.
2001 Independent 25 Aug. (Weekend Review section) 17/3 Others [sc. plums], like the exquisitely flavoured Transparent Gage and Coe's Golden Drop, almost disappeared because they bruised too easily and fruited too erratically for commercial production.
2003 B. Gibbons Travellers' Nature Guide: Greece 153/1 On old walls (of which there are plenty!), one sees clumps of a golden drop Onosma frutescens.
golden dust n. English regional (Devon) (now rare or disused) the yellow-flowered rock plant Aurinia saxatilis; = gold dust n. 2.
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1879 Rep. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 11 134 A gardener, a native of Prawle, near Kingsbridge, but long resident at Torquay, 70 years of age, when speaking of the plant commonly known as the Yellow Alyssum, called it Golden dust. Torquay, 13th June, 1878.
1915 ‘B. Chase’ Through Dartmoor Window xi. 92 ‘Golden dust’ is the pretty common name here for alyssum.
golden feather n. a cultivated variety of feverfew ( Tanacetum parthenium) having yellow foliage.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > feverfew
feverfewOE
adrelwurta1300
featherfew?a1300
whitewort?c1400
matricary1523
St. Peter's wort1526
parthenium1548
matricaria1664
wild wormwood1696
mugworta1726
whitehead1864
golden feather1867
feather-bow1880
flirt-wort1882
1867 Jrnl. Hort., Cottage Gardener, & Country Gentleman 21 Mar. 209/2 Pyrethrum Golden Feather was sent by the same exhibitors [sc. Messrs. E. G. Henderson].
1911 W. P. Wright Illustr. Encycl. Gardening 78 The Golden Feather is used for lines and designs in formal beds.
2007 N. Ondra Foliage ii. 86/3 Occasionally, you'll see yellow-leaved plants sold under the names ‘Golden Feather’ and ‘Golden Moss’.
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1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. K jv It hath gotten the name of oxey: it groweth besyde townes: the herbe may be called in Englysh goldenfloure [printed goldenlfoure].
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 539/2 Golden-flower, Chrysanthemum.
1892 Ann. Rep. Wisconsin State Hort. Soc. 1891 12 217 It [sc. the chrysanthemum] was once called the golden flower, but that is hardly appropriate for a plant with such varied colors.
golden flower of Peru n. [probably after post-classical Latin chrysanthemum peruvianum (1576 or earlier)] now historical a sunflower (genus Helianthus).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > sunflower
golden flower of Peru1578
Indian sun1578
girasola1586
flower of the sun1597
marigold of Peru1597
marigold sunflower1597
sunflower1597
turnsole1725
sun-seeker1847
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. xxxiv. 191 The Indian Sunne, or golden floure of Perrowe..groweth to the length of thirtene or fouretenne foote.
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole 295 (heading) Chrysanthemum Perüuianum, siue Flos Solis. The golden flower of Peru, or the Flower of the Sunne.
1917 K. M. Beals Flower Lore & Legend 96 Some of the travelers called the plant the Indian sonne-fleur; others the golden flower of Peru.
2008 Brit. Art Jrnl. Spring 39/1 First introduced into Europe from the Americas by the Spanish in the 16th century, the sunflower, also known as the Indian Sunflower, the golden flower of Peru, or Flower of the Sonne, quickly obtained widespread popularity amongst gardeners and herbalists.
golden groundsel n. golden ragwort, Packera aurea.
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1761 J. Hill Veg. Syst. II. 119 (heading) Golden Groundsel.
1886 Cultivator & Country Gentleman 10 June 447/3 The one with yellow flowers is Senecio aureus, the ‘golden groundsel’, also called ‘squaw weed’ in some localities.
1952 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 5 June 6/6 Millions of wildflowers were in bloom—violets, marigold, golden groundsel, trillium, hawkweed and bluets.
2003 Amateur Gardening 24 May 55/1 Even notorious moisture lovers such as the golden groundsel..are all thriving.
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1805 W. G. Maton tr. C. Linnaeus in Pulteney's Gen. View Writings Linnæus (ed. 2) 235 Chrysocoma. Golden-Hair. 9 Species.
1840 J. Paxton & J. Lindley Pocket Bot. Dict. 144/2 Golden-hair, see Chrysocoma comaurea.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Chenopodiaccae (goose-foot and allies) > [noun] > salt bush or orach
milesOE
orachea1300
golden herb1562
notchweed1659
sea pot-herb1706
lamb's quarter1773
butter leaves1789
fat-hen1795
mountain spinach1822
sea-orach1845
salt bush1863
1562 W. Bullein Bk. Simples f. xlixv in Bulwarke of Defence Redde [printed dedde] Atriplex is Arage, a garden herbe, whiche will quickly spryng forthe, to doe pleasure to mankynd. And is called the golden herbe because of his yelowe flowers.
1605 J. Mosan tr. C. Wirsung Gen. Pract. Physick Third Index Olus aureum, Atriplex, Orage, Arech, or golden herbe.
1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ Atriplex..An herb called orage, or orach; golden herb.
1863 D. H. McNicoll Dict. Nat. Hist. Terms 38 Atriplex, Pliny's name for the Orache, or Golden herb.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > buttercup and allied flowers > allied flowers
githa1382
nigellaa1398
gollana1400
pilewort?a1425
gold-knop1538
fig-wort1548
lucken gowan1548
melanthion1559
gold crap1571
bachelor's buttons1578
celandine1578
gold cup1578
Goldilocks1578
nigel1578
nigelweed1578
troll flower1578
peppergrass1587
golden cup1589
globe crowfoot1597
globeflower1597
winter aconite1597
kiss-me-twice-before-I-rise1664
devil-in-a-bush1722
globe ranunculus1731
turban1760
love-in-a-mist1787
love-in-a-puzzle1824
fair-grass1825
water buttercup1831
golden knobs1835
ficary1848
New Year's gift1856
bishop wort1863
fennel-flower1863
golden ball1875
1835 W. Baxter Brit. Phænogamous Bot. II. 153 Caltha palustris..Golden-knobs.
1841 A. Beesley Hist. Banbury 574 R. bulbosus. Buttercups. Golden Knobs.
1920 W. E. Brenchley Weeds of Farm Land xiii. 221 Ranunculus acris, L...gilcup, gold crap, gold cup, gold knops, golden knobs, goldy knob.
golden-locks n. †(a) common hair moss, Polytrichum commune (cf. golden maidenhair n., Goldilocks n. 3a(b)) (obsolete); †(b) the yellow-flowered everlasting plant Helichrysum stoechas (obsolete rare); (c) common polypody, Polypodium vulgare, which has yellowish-orange spore cases on the underside of the fronds (now rare).Sense (b) is apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 24v In other ryfts grew Mowse-eare, Polypodie, Adientus or Lady hayre, the iagged and curled Cithracus the knotted Lunarie minor, Prickmaddam, Polytricon, or goulden lockes and such like.
1662 tr. F. Plater et al. Golden Pract. Physick (new ed.) 524/1 The compound Oxysaccharum of Nicolas is made of the juyce of Pomegranates, in which are infused roots of Fennel, Asparagus, Butchers broom, Grass, Maiden-hair, Harts Tongue, Golden locks [L. polytricum], Cezerach, Liver-wort, Violets.
1736 N. Bailey Dict. Domesticum 305 Golden-Locks call'd also Golden tufts.
1844 E. Newman Hist. Brit. Ferns (ed. 2) 112 It [Polypodium vulgare]..is called by these gatherers Golden Locks, and Golden Maiden-hair.
1952 Amer. Fern Jrnl. 42 148 [Polypodium] vulgare L.: Adder's Fern, Golden-locks, Licorice Fern, etc.
golden lungwort n. now rare any of several hawkweeds (genus Hieracium), probably of a closely related group including H. murorum (wall hawkweed).
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1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) i. xxxvi. 304 (heading) Of French or Golden Lung-wort.
1757 Philos. Trans. 1756 (Royal Soc.) 49 846 We are well assured that this is the plant mentioned by Dr. Deering in the Catalogus Nottinghamensis, for the narrow-leaved golden Lungwort.
1821 S. F. Gray Nat. Arrangem. Brit. Plants II. 422 Narrow-leaved golden lungwort.
1913 G. E. Stone List Plants Franklin, Hampshire & Hampden Counties Mass. 65 [Hieracium] murorum L. Golden Lungwort.
2006 Douglasia Winter 23/1 Hieracium non-native species.., including the following:..Hieracium murorum Golden lungwort.
golden maidenhair n. now rare (also golden maidenhair moss) the common hair moss, Polytrichum commune, which has golden-brown capsules.
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the world > plants > particular plants > moss > [noun] > other mosses
golden maidenhair1578
polytrichon1578
bryon1597
maidenhair moss1597
mountain coralline1598
chalice-moss1610
purple bottle1650
water moss1663
fern-moss1698
hypnum1753
Mnium1754
rock tripe1763
feather-moss1776
scaly water-moss1796
screw moss1804
hog-bed1816
fringe-moss1818
caribou moss1831
apple moss1841
bristle-moss1844
scale-moss1846
anophyte1850
robin's rye1854
wall moss1855
fork-moss1860
thread-moss1864
lattice moss1868
robin-wheat1886
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. lxxi. 412 Goldylockes, Polytrichon, or Golden Maydenheare.
1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1371 Muscus capillaris..Goldilocks, or Golden Maiden haire Mosse.
1785 T. Martyn in tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxxii. 493 The common species [of Polytrichum], called Greater golden Maidenhair, is known by..the parallelopiped form of the capsule.
1826 A. Steele Nat. & Agric. Hist. Peat-moss 401 (gloss.) Polytrichum commune. Goldilocks, Golden maidenhair, Hair moss, Redshanks.
1999 New Scientist 19 June 53/2 One of the largest species, and the one most commonly planted in Japanese Zen temples, is Polytrichum commune. Shaped like little caps, its gold spore cases have inspired no fewer than three new English names: common haircap, great golden maidenhair and great goldilocks.
golden moss n. †(a) the common hair moss, Polytrichum commune (cf. golden maidenhair n., Goldilocks n. 3a(a)) (obsolete rare); (b) biting stonecrop, Sedum acre, which has yellow flowers (now rare).
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1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1374 This is called in English Goldilockes Polytrichon... It might also be termed Golden Mosse, or Hairie Mosse.
1855 W. Paul Hand-bk. Villa Gardening vii. 40 In the interior a pretty effect is obtained by edging the beds with flints and pebbles, among which the golden moss (sedum acre)..and various plants of lowly growth, are made to creep.
1912 Garden Mag. Feb. 16/1 The carpet bedding fraternity affect a ‘golden moss’ (var. aureum), which has showier tips in spring.
2001 Prince George (Brit. Columbia) Citizen (Nexis) 30 June (Final ed.) (Gardening section) 35 One of the most prolific, bordering on a pest, is one called Sedum acre, or Golden Carpet, Golden moss and I've heard it called Live Forever.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > everlasting or immortelle
yellow amaranth1551
gold-flower1578
mothwort1578
God's flower1597
golden cudweed1597
golden mothwort1597
moth-weed1597
aurelia1598
everlasting flower1610
everlasting1633
helichrysum1664
yellowheads1712
immortal herb1731
xeranthemum1736
eternal flower1785
immortelle1832
strawflower1924
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 519 Of Golden Mothwoort, or Cudweede.
golden mouse-ear n. now historical orange hawkweed, Pilosella aurantiaca.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > hawkweed or bastard hawkweed
lungwortc1000
mouse-eara1300
pilosella?a1425
hawkweed1562
French lungwort1597
myosotis1601
golden mouse-ear1629
Grim the Collier1629
rattlesnake weed1651
Hieracium1664
pilosella1756
mouse-eared hawkweed1789
crepis1822
wall hawkweed1829
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole 300 The fittest English name we can giue it [sc. Pilosella maior] is Golden Mouse-eare.
1742 H. Baker Microscope made Easy 278 There is also a greenish Grasshopper or Locust, on Gooseberry Leaves, Sweet-Bryar, and golden Mouse-Ear.
1855 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. (1861) III. 213 Orange Hawkweed... The plant is sometimes called by gardeners Golden Mouse-ear.
1905 C. H. M. Gaskell Spring in Shropshire Abbey 259 Besides these, nestling against the wall, I noted a plant of golden mouse-ear just coming into blossom.
1990 Garden Hist. 18 147 Miller described this as Golden Mouse-ear.
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1882 Garden 19 Aug. 156/2 Balsamita grandiflora (Plagius grandiflorus), or Golden Nugget is a distinct composite, bearing flat heads of pure gold.
golden oat n. now rare (more fully golden oat grass) yellow oat grass, Trisetum flavescens.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > goose-grass
haver grass1578
oat-grass1578
golden oat1716
brome1762
goose-corn1762
pearl grass1794
goose-grass1853
pearl1886
1716 J. Petiver Graminum, Muscorum, Fungorum, Submarinorum Concordia 3/2 Ray's Golden Oat.
1842 C. W. Johnson Farmer's Encycl. 150/2 Avena flavescens, Golden oat, or yellow oat-grass.
1948 G. D. H. Bell Cultivated Plants Farm vi. 50 The golden oat grass (Trisetum flavescens) is also commonly found on the chalk soils with the fine fescues.
2007 Vet. Rec. 161 751/1 The intake of feed containing more than 20 to 30 per cent golden oat grass (Trisetum flavescens) has been reported to cause enzootic calcinosis in cattle..and in small ruminants.
golden osier n. (a) golden willow, Salix alba var. vitellina; (b) English regional (chiefly Isle of Wight) bog myrtle, Myrica gale (now rare).
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > willow and allies > [noun] > other types of willow
red willow1547
water willow1583
goat's willow1597
rose willow1597
sweet willow1597
French willow1601
siler1607
palm-withy1609
sallowie1610
swallowtail willow1626
willow bay1650
black willow1670
crack-willow1670
grey willow1697
water sallow1761
almond willowa1763
swallow-tailed willow1764
swamp willow1765
golden osier1772
golden willow1772
purple willow1773
sand-willow1786
goat willow1787
purple osier1797
whipcord1812
Arctic willow1818
sage-willow1846
pussy willow1851
Kilmarnock willow1854
sweet-bay willow1857
pussy1858
palm willow1869
Spaniard1871
ground-willow1875
Spanish willow1875
snap-willow1880
diamond willow1884
sandbar willow1884
pussy palm1886
creeping willow1894
bat-willow1907
cricket bat willow1907
silver willow1914
1772 J. Rutty Ess. Nat. Hist. Dublin I. 126 There is a particular species of the Ozier, called, The golden Ozier, not specified among the Willows in Ray's Synopsis.
1838 J. C. Loudon Arboretum III. 1528 Salix vitellina L. The..yellow Willow, or Golden Osier.
1850 Phytologist 3 847 This shrub is called, in the Isle of Wight, Golden Withy, Sweet Withy, Golden Osier.
1905 Garden 24 June 372/2 Much more generally useful are the Willows or Osiers with highly-coloured bark, especially the Cardinal and the Golden Osiers.
2004 M. Stensaas Canoe Country Flora (new ed.) 48 (margin) Sweet Gale Myrica gale... Other names bog myrtle..golden osier.
2012 C. N. Shealy Healing Remedies Sourcebk. 224/1 Salix alba var. vitellina. Willow. The willow is an attractive tree with thin, bright yellow twigs and long, narrow leaves. It is also known as the golden osier.
golden pert n. now rare a North American plant with tubular yellow flowers, Gratiola aurea (family Plantaginaceae), found in shallow water and other damp locations; also called golden hedge-hyssop.
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1785 M. Cutler in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 1 403 Goldenpert.
1821 W. P. C. Barton Flora N. Amer. (new ed.) I. 71 Gratiola aurea. Golden pert.
2008 W. K. Chapman et al. Wildflowers Mass., Connecticut, & Rhode Island in Color iii. 118/2 (heading) Golden Pert, Golden Hedge-hyssop Gratiola aurea Muhl.
golden ragwort n. (also †Virginian golden ragwort) a perennial ragwort with bright yellow flowers, Packera aurea, native to the eastern United States and (formerly) used medicinally for a wide variety of disorders.Also called golden groundsel, life root, squaw-weed, etc.
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1772 R. Weston Universal Botanist III. 640 Senecio aureus. Virginian Golden Ragwort.
?1789 J. Graefer Descriptive Catal. Herbaceous or Perennial Plants 105 (table) Senecio aureus. Golden Ragwort.
1859 W. Darlington & G. Thurber Amer. Weeds & Useful Plants 193 Senecio aureus... Golden Ragwort. Squaw-weed.
1904 G. G. Niles Bog-trotting for Orchids xiii. 162 Here, a little later, I collected pink azaleas and marsh marigolds, golden-ragwort,..white mustard, and water-cress.
2004 K. Adams N. Carolina's Best Wildflower Hikes 134 Continuing on, you come to the river, where golden ragwort is common.
golden-rayed lily n. a lily having fragrant white flowers streaked with yellow, Lilium auratum, native to Japan but widely cultivated elsewhere.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > lily and allied flowers > lilies
lily971
lily-flower1340
martagon1440
delucea1450
red lily1531
purple lily1578
mountain lily1597
gold lily1629
Turk's cap1672
turn-cap1688
Juno's rose1706
orange lily1731
Canada lily1771
Japan lily1813
tiger-lily1824
Annunciation lily1853
Easter lily1860
golden-rayed lily1865
scarlet martagon1867
Japanese lily1870
Madonna lily1877
Bermuda lily1882
thimble lily1883
panther lily1884
triplet lily1884
turban-lily1884
Mary-lily1893
tiger1901
leopard lily1902
lilium1902
swamp lily1902
Washington lily1911
Shasta lily1915
regal lily1916
regale1920
Oregon lily1925
1865 Florist & Pomologist Sept. 186 It has expanded, and presents to me a flower of the original type of this rich golden-rayed Lily.
1908 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Apr. 3/2 The golden-rayed lily, be it never so gorgeous.
2005 Independent on Sunday 26 June 53/3 One we're trying this year is the Golden Rayed lily of Japan L. auratum.
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1882 H. J. W. Buxton Life Worth Living xix. 145 After the great fire of London, a flower called the Golden Rocket appeared, and beautified places wasted by the flame.
golden samphire n. a European coastal plant with narrow fleshy leaves and yellow daisy-like flowers, Limbarda crithmoides (family Asteraceae ( Compositae)).
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1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 417 Golden Sampier bringeth foorth many stalks from one roote.
1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants II. 515 Elecampane..Golden Samphire.
1996 Guardian 17 Aug. (Weekend Suppl.) 37/5 You can find the butterfly orchid, the richly named corky-fruited water dropwort and the golden samphire.
golden saxifrage n. either of two small creeping plants having rounded leaves and flowers with yellowish sepals and bright yellow stamens, Chrysosplenium oppositifolium and C. alternifolium (family Saxifragaceae), native to Europe and found in damp, shady places; (in later use also) any of the other plants of the genus Chrysosplenium.
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1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. cii. 288 The golden Saxifrage groweth in certayne moyst and waterie places.
1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden ccxxiii. 350 Golden Saxifrage is most like unto the before described, yet it differeth therefrom in that the Leaves are not hairy, but somwhat thicker and of a darker greene colour.., whereas also at the Joynts do come forth very small gold yellow flowers, not easily observed.
1863 M. Plues Rambles in Search of Wild Flowers 126 I have both the Golden Saxifrages; they have no corolla, but the calyx and stamens are of a brilliant gold colour.
1909 F. E. Hulme That Rock-garden of Ours vi. 162 The golden saxifrages—we have two of them in Britain—are closely allied botanically to the other saxifrages.
2002 P. Long Guide to Rural Wales v. 165/2 Not far away..is Bailey Einion, woodland home to lady fern, golden saxifrage, pied flycatchers, woodpeckers and cardinal beetles.
goldenseal n. a perennial herbaceous plant native to North America, Hydrastis canadensis (family Ranunculaceae), having palmately lobed leaves, petalless flowers, red berries, and a yellow rhizome used medicinally for the treatment of a wide range of disorders; (also) a medicinal preparation made from this plant.Also called yellow puccoon, yellowroot, etc.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > non-British plants or herbs > [noun] > North American > other plants
bear grass1750
gardenia1756
sisyrinchium1767
heartsease1785
blazing star1789
nondo1791
unicorn-plant1796
screw-stem1802
American centaury1803
wild ginger?1804
pinweed1814
sabbatia1814
mountain mint1817
orange-root1817
richweed1818
goldenseal1828
pipeweed1837
snow plant1846
lopseed1850
devil's claw1876
turkey's beard1884
richweed1894
blue star grass1999
1828 C. S. Rafinesque Med. Flora U.S. I. 251 Hydrastis Canadensis. English Name—Yellow Pucoon... Vulgar Names—Yellowroot, Ground Raspberry, Yellowpaint, Golden Seal..&c.
1881 S. P. McLean Cape Cod Folks (ed. 8) ii. 38 The golden seal..was served in a diluted state with milk and sugar and taken as a beverage.
1973 Sat. Evening Post (U.S.) July 116/1 Digitalis (foxglove), ginseng, hepatica and goldenseal are the best known.
2011 W. M. Vincent Compl. Guide growing Healing & Medicinal Herbs iii. 97 Goldenseal has antibiotic properties and is used for winter illnesses and respiratory complaints.
golden spoon n. now rare any of several trees or shrubs of the tropical American genus Byrsonima (family Malpighiaceae); esp. B. crassifolia, which has bright yellow flowers and fruits.
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1864 A. H. R. Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Indian Islands 784/1 Golden-spoon: Byrsonima cinerea.
1960 W. C. Kennard & H. F. Winters Some Fruits & Nuts Tropics 38 The closely related Golden Spoon (Byrsonima crassifolia (L.) H.B.K.) is native to the same area as the ‘maricao’.
2006 M. Allaby Grasslands i. 15 There are scattered trees. These include..the manteco or golden spoon (Byrsonima crassifolia), which produces edible fruits.
golden thistle n. any of the thistles comprising the genus Scolymus (family Asteraceae ( Compositae)), the members of which are native to the Mediterranean region and have yellow flowers; esp. S. hispanicus.
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1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 993 Carduus Chrysanthemus. The golden Thistle.
1890 Amer. Naturalist 24 643 Scolymus, Spanish scolymus, Spanish oyster plant, or golden thistle.
1922 A. F. G. Bell Spanish Galicia iv. 93 Heather, whin, lentisk and golden thistles grow sparsely among the boulders.
2014 J. Tardío & M. Pardo-de-Santayana in A. Chevalier et al. Plants & People v. 234/2 In the central and western part of Spain..the midribs of the golden thistle are prepared and preserved in bottles.
goldentop n. chiefly U.S. a grass with dense yellowish panicles, Lamarckia aurea, native to the Mediterranean region and introduced to the United States.
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1896 F. Lamson-Scribner Useful & Ornamental Grasses (U.S. Dept. Agric.: Div. Agrostol. Bull. No. 3) 105 Golden-top, Lamarckia aurea.
1934 A. Arber Gramineae ix. 186 In Goldentop, however, the tendency to reduced fertility is stronger than in Dog's-tail-grass.
2014 J. P. Smith Field Guide Grasses Calif. 100 Lamarckia aurea. Goldentop. This distinctive and attractive weed ranges from Butte County south to San Diego County.
golden trefoil n. [after post-classical Latin trifolium aureum (1583 or earlier)] now historical and rare the hepatica Hepatica nobilis (or, in later use, its North American variety H. nobilis var. obtusa), having three-lobed leaves and blue, white, or pink flowers, (formerly) used as a treatment for jaundice.
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1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 1031 Of noble Lyuerwoort, or golden Trefoile.
1653 N. Culpeper Pharmacopœia Londinensis 40/1 Common and golden Trefoyl, Woodsorrel, sweet Trefoyl.
a1722 J. Quincy tr. Dispensatory Royal Coll. Physicians London (1727) 314 Hepatica, nobilis,..noble Liverwort, or golden Trefoil.
2009 S. T. Runkel & A. F. Bull Wildflowers Iowa Woodlands (ed. 2) 7/2 Other common names [of Hepatica americana] golden trefoil, herb trinity, ivy flower [etc.].
golden tuft n. (also †golden tufts) †(a) the everlasting plant Helichrysum stoechas (cf. golden cudweed n. (a)) (obsolete); †(b) the tropical American plant Pterocaulon virgatum (cf. golden cudweed n. (b)) (obsolete); (c) (more fully golden-tuft alyssum) gold dust, Aurinia saxatilis (now rare).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > other composite plants
wild sagea1400
yellow devil's-bita1400
white golda1425
cotula1578
golden cudweed1597
golden tuft1597
rattlesnake root1682
Cape tansy?1711
hawkbit1713
ambrosia1731
cabbage tree1735
hog's eye1749
Osteospermum1754
ox-tongue1760
scentless mayweed1800
old man's beard1804
ox-eye1818
echinacea1825
sheep's beard1836
shepherd's beard1840
cat's-ear1848
goatweed1869
silversword1888
khaki bush1907
venidium1937
khaki bos1947
Namaqualand daisy1963
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 520 Coma aurea. Golden tuft.
1686 J. Ray Historia Plantarum I. vi. x. 280 Stœchas citrina..Oriental Goldy-locks or Golden-tufts.
a1726 H. Barham Hortus Americanus (1794) 73 (heading) Helichrysum, or golden cudweed, golden tufts, or locks.
1864 A. H. R. Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Indian Islands 784/1 Golden-tuft, Pterocaulon virgatum.
1896 T. W. Sanders Encycl. Gardening (ed. 2) 148 Golden Tuft (Alyssum saxatile & Helichrysum stœchas)—see Alyssum & Helichrysum.
1921 A. D. Taylor Compl. Garden p. xxv In this photograph we see Scotch pinks, creeping phlox, golden tuft, tunica, and other similar plants used to excellent advantage.
2014 J. Walliser Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Garden 120/1 Aurinia saxatilis. Basket of gold, gold dust, golden alyssum, golden-tuft alyssum, rock madwort.
golden willow n. a variety of the white willow having young stems which are yellow or orange, Salix alba var. vitellina.Cf. golden osier n. (a), golden withy n. (a).
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > willow and allies > [noun] > other types of willow
red willow1547
water willow1583
goat's willow1597
rose willow1597
sweet willow1597
French willow1601
siler1607
palm-withy1609
sallowie1610
swallowtail willow1626
willow bay1650
black willow1670
crack-willow1670
grey willow1697
water sallow1761
almond willowa1763
swallow-tailed willow1764
swamp willow1765
golden osier1772
golden willow1772
purple willow1773
sand-willow1786
goat willow1787
purple osier1797
whipcord1812
Arctic willow1818
sage-willow1846
pussy willow1851
Kilmarnock willow1854
sweet-bay willow1857
pussy1858
palm willow1869
Spaniard1871
ground-willow1875
Spanish willow1875
snap-willow1880
diamond willow1884
sandbar willow1884
pussy palm1886
creeping willow1894
bat-willow1907
cricket bat willow1907
silver willow1914
1772 J. P. Du Roi Harbkesche wilde Baumzucht II. 393 Salix sativa lutea, folio crenato... The golden Willow.
1776 A. Hunter in Evelyn's Sylva (new ed.) 251 (note) Besides the true Ozier..there must be the Sallow, the long-shooting Green Willow, the Crane Willow, the Golden Willow [etc.].
1861 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1859–60 4 447 The Golden Willow has been a favorite with me.
1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 141/2 Golden willow, var. vitellina , has a cultivar ‘Britzensis’, with bright orange twigs, which are cut for basketry.
2013 N. Griffith Hild v. 90 The golden willow grew fastest, he said, but the black willow was best for baskets.
golden withy n. (a) golden willow, Salix alba var. vitellina; a stem of this; (b) English regional (chiefly Isle of Wight) bog myrtle, Myrica gale (now rare).Cf. golden osier n.
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1835 J. Dennis Landscape Gardener 84 Some immediate provision for a shaded walk..may be accomplished the very first summer, by two rows of the golden withy meeting in an arch.
1848 Phytologist 3 847 This shrub [sc. Myrica gale] is called, in the Isle of Wight, Golden Withy, Sweet Withy, Golden Osier.
1927 W. R. Calvert Secret of Wild 116 The golden withies with which it was fashioned had come from the water-logged land that faced the marsh across the river.
1947 O. Percival Our Old-fashioned Flowers 164 Golden Withy, Myrica gale.
2013 N. Griffith Hild v. 90 And then Bán would go look and untangle the tall golden withies from one another so they would grow straight.
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(a) In the names of varieties of apple, as golden rennet, golden russet, etc.
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1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 58 in Sylva Apples..Golden-pepin..Golden-Doucet.
1676 J. Worlidge Vinetum Britannicum 158 The Leather-Coat, or Golden-Russeting, as some call it, is a very good Winter-Fruit.
1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 163 Golden Russet.
1703 T. Tryon Way to get Wealth (new ed.) 66 Take Pipping Juice, Pearmain..Golden Runnets.
1724 S. Switzer et al. Pract. Fruit-gardener xviii. 137 Golden Monday.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xxi. 164 The Golden Ducket Dauset..Apples.
1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Tenham The place where Rich. Harris, fruiterer to Hen. VIII. first planted cherries, pippins, and golden-renates.
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 243 Look at..that great tree, bending with the weight of its golden-rennets.
1873 J. Scott Scott's Orchardist (ed. 2) 103 Russet, Golden (Aromatic or Golden Russeting), 2 size, 1 qual., December to March.
1884 A. F. Barron Brit. Apples 188 Golden Monday... Small, round, angular, yellow, streaked, early, third quality.
1913 J.J. Thomas & W.H.S. Wood Amer. Fruit Culturist (ed. 21) 701/2 (Index) Golden Pearmain. See Clarke's Pearmain.
1968 E. Buckler Ox Bells & Fireflies 231 The taste of the supper fork when you'd had words with a neighbor and the taste of the Golden Russet when you'd made up with him.
2000 Book Nov. 42/1 There are Macintosh as well as antique varieties, and Hamilton ticks off their names: ‘Golden Russet, Seek No Further, Winesap [etc.]’.
2010 C. L. Calhoun Old Southern Apples 80/1 Golden Reinette (Golden Rennet, English Golden Reinette, English Pippin, Kirke's Golden Reinette, Reinette Golden, Yellow German Reinette): An old English apple, originally from Herefordshire.
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Golden Delicious n. a variety of dessert apple with a yellow-green skin and sweet flesh; a tree of this variety; frequently attributive.
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1917 Lima (Ohio) Daily News 25 June 2/2 First sprouts of the new ‘Golden Delicious’ apple trees which have created so much attention in Missouri, have been received here.
1950 Science 24 Mar. 308/1 Flowers of the Golden Delicious apple were in the early pink stage.
2000 Daily Tel. 2 Oct. 32/1 There is no place on this 90-acre fruit farm for the bland Golden Delicious.
golden pippin n. a variety of apple having a yellow skin and flavourful yellowish flesh, used as a dessert, cooking, and cider apple; a tree of this variety.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > apple > [noun] > eating-apple > types of
costardc1390
bitter-sweet1393
Queening?1435
richardine?1435
blaundrellc1440
pear apple1440
tuberc1440
quarrendenc1450
birtle1483
deusan1570
apple-john1572
Richard1572
lording1573
greening1577
queen apple1579
peeler1580
darling1584
doucin1584
golding1589
puffin1589
lady's longing1591
bitter-sweeting1597
pearmain1597
paradise apple1598
garden globe1600
gastlet1600
leather-coat1600
maligar1600
pome-paradise1601
French pippin1629
gillyflower1629
king apple1635
lady apple1651
golden pippin1654
goldling1655
puff1655
cardinal1658
green fillet1662
chestnut1664
cinnamon apple1664
fenouil1664
go-no-further1664
Westbury apple1664
seek-no-farther1670
nonsuch1676
calville1691
passe-pomme1691
fennel apple1699
queen1699
genet1706
fig-apple1707
oaken pin1707
nonpareil1726
costing1731
monstrous reinette1731
Newtown pippin1760
Ribston1782
Rhode Island greening1795
oslin1801
fall pippin1803
monstrous pippin1817
Newtown Spitzenburg1817
Gravenstein1821
Red Astrachan1822
Tolman sweet1822
grange apple1823
orange pippin1823
Baldwin1826
Sturmer Pippin1831
Newtowner1846
Northern Spy1847
Blenheim Orange1860
Cox1860
McIntosh Red1876
Worcester1877
raspberry apple1894
delicious1898
Laxton's Superb1920
Macoun1924
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > eating-apple > types of
costardc1390
bitter-sweet1393
pippin?1435
pomewater?1435
Queening?1435
richardine?1435
blaundrellc1440
pear apple1440
tuberc1440
quarrendenc1450
birtle1483
sweeting1530
pomeroyal1534
renneta1568
deusan1570
apple-john1572
Richard1572
lording1573
russeting1573
greening1577
queen apple1579
peeler1580
reinette1582
darling1584
doucin1584
golding1589
puffin1589
lady's longing1591
bitter-sweeting1597
pearmain1597
paradise apple1598
garden globe1600
gastlet1600
leather-coat1600
maligar1600
pomeroy1600
short-start1600
jenneting1601
pome-paradise1601
russet coat1602
John apple1604
honey apple1611
honeymeal1611
musk apple1611
short-shank1611
spice apple1611
French pippin1629
king apple1635
lady apple1651
golden pippin1654
goldling1655
puff1655
cardinal1658
renneting1658
green fillet1662
chestnut1664
cinnamon apple1664
fenouil1664
go-no-further1664
reinetting1664
Westbury apple1664
seek-no-farther1670
nonsuch1676
white-wining1676
russet1686
calville1691
fennel apple1699
queen1699
genet1706
fig-apple1707
oaken pin1707
musk1708
nonpareil1726
costing1731
monstrous reinette1731
Newtown pippin1760
Ribston1782
Rhode Island greening1795
oslin1801
wine apple1802
fall pippin1803
monstrous pippin1817
Newtown Spitzenburg1817
Gravenstein1821
Red Astrachan1822
Tolman sweet1822
grange apple1823
orange pippin1823
Baldwin1826
wine-sap1826
Jonathan1831
Sturmer Pippin1831
rusty-coat1843
Newtowner1846
Northern Spy1847
Cornish gilliflowerc1850
Blenheim Orange1860
Cox1860
nutmeg pippin1860
McIntosh Red1876
Worcester1877
raspberry apple1894
delicious1898
Laxton's Superb1920
Melba apple1928
Melba1933
Mutsu1951
Newtown1953
discovery1964
1654 J. Cooper Art of Cookery 174 Take the golden Pippin, which is much the best.
1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. ?Sept. (1965) I. 444 The honest English Squire..who verily beleives..that the African fruits have not so fine a flavour as golden Pipins.
1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 47 The golden pippin has gradually become a shy grower in this country.
2016 Worcester News (Nexis) 27 Sept. There will also be activities and crafts for children, expert advice and food to buy, including apples like Golden Pippin, Howgate Wonder and Bramley grown at Hanbury.
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goldenv.
/ˈɡəʊld(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈɡoʊldən/ 1. transitive. To make golden in colour; to cause to be or appear golden.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > making yellow > make yellow [verb (transitive)] > make golden yellow
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golden1835
1835 Knickerbocker Nov. 430 Every morn Golden'd his pathway.
1881 Unitarian Rev. Dec. 530 The wild whirl of the mountain stream,..greening the grass and goldening the grain.
1920 Amer. Architect & Archit. Rev. 29 Sept. 409/2 The cold light of day is goldened by passing through windows of thin onyx.
2001 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 18 Dec. 16 My cottage pie..was nicely goldened under the grill.
2. intransitive. To become or appear to become golden in colour.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > making yellow > become yellow [verb (intransitive)] > become golden yellow
golden1860
1860 Frank Leslie's Illustr. Newspaper 9 June 22/2 The corn ripened and goldened in the rich, waving fields.
1888 J. R. Lowell Heartsease & Rue ii. 65 Like loose mists that blow Across her crescent, goldening as they go.
1937 Irish Monthly Nov. 762 Looking up through their luminous shadow He saw that their branches were yellowing, Beneath the green fluttering canopies, Leaves goldening, falling and following.
2015 Times (Nexis) 7 Nov. (Mag.) 103 I prefer a lamb chop to be shown some serious heat so that..the fat goldens.
Derivatives
ˈgoldening adj.
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1855 B. Taylor Lands of Saracen ii. 39 The intense blue of the sea, seen close at hand over a broad field of goldening wheat, formed a dazzling and superb contrast of color.
1956 B. Chute Greenwillow iii. 38 Little sugar circles trickled down onto the goldening pastry.
2015 Racing Post (Nexis) 4 Oct. 1 The goldening trees of the Bois de Boulogne.
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