aurum
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of aurum
1490–1500; < Latin: gold
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These can all be upgraded and used to produce various goods which can be sold for aurum.
From Forbes ● Nov. 9, 2012
A Unique Approach to Social Play Knightly Adventure encourages social play by rewarding players with experience and aurum for helping out friends.
From Forbes ● Nov. 9, 2012
Upon the table in our room I found in the morning a slip of paper, on which Dr Johnson had written with his pencil these words: Quantum cedat virtutibus aurum.
From The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell
Canary is the only life preserver, the true aurum potabile, the universal panacea for all diseases, thirst, and short life.
From Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock
This looks as if his mental expression were Púlád-i-Hundwáni, rendered by an idiom like Virgil's pocula et aurum.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Henry Yule
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