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gold mine

noun

  1. a mine yielding gold.
  2. a source of great wealth or profit, or any desirable thing.
  3. a copious source or reserve of something required:

    a gold mine of information about antiques.



gold mine

noun

  1. a place where gold ore is mined
  2. a source of great wealth, profit, etc
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Derived Forms

  • ˈgold-ˌminer, noun
  • ˈgold-ˌmining, noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of gold mine1

late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75
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Idioms and Phrases

A rich, plentiful source of wealth or some other desirable thing, as in That business proved to be a gold mine , or She's a gold mine of information about the industry . [First half of 1800s]
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Example Sentences

The Iraqi cell phone network was a potential intelligence gold mine.

Like a Kinsey Report for the big-data era, there's a gold mine of findings here to titter about.

“For these companies, the current situation is a gold mine,” Teret said.

It also happens to be a gold mine of soul food restaurants that are anything but corporate in character.

It seems the answer is no—World War II and its surrounding events continue to be a gold mine for writers and filmmakers.

Believed there was a gold mine, or somethin' like that, under the south medder—'D you ever hear such a thing!

Here is a gold-mine for the makers of boys' books of all future generations to quarry in.

She confidently expects to discover a gold mine, and so that's another reason why she thinks Allen ought to be here.

The development of the self-binding reaper on our western grain-fields has opened a gold mine for Sisal cordage.

For mind is really more honorable than muscle, yet when these two met in a gold mine it fared ill with mind.

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