单词 | golden west |
释义 | > as lemmasgolden west 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. ΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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