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noun

a mine yielding gold.

a source of great wealth or profit, or any desirable thing.

a copious source or reserve of something required: a gold mine of information about antiques.

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Origin of gold mine

late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75

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How to use gold mine in a sentence

In straight relationships with an age gap, words like ‘gold-digger’ and ‘trophy wife’ get thrown around.
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There was a lot of prison fiction from movies and books to mine.
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And more than anything, I wanted a souvenir for my father, so I rolled him back, and he had gold teeth.
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I gave a reading last week with someone who had taken a class of mine.
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He headed west in 1860 for health reasons and to join the gold rush in Colorado.
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When she arrived she made a regular entry into the city in a coach all gold and glass, drawn by eight superb plumed horses.
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On his head was the second-hand hat of some parvenu's coachman, gold lace, cockade and all.
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A leather swordbelt, gold-embroidered at the edges, carried a long steel-halted rapier in a leather scabbard chaped with steel.
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M was a Miser, and hoarded up gold; N was a Nobleman, gallant and bold.
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He accuses the latter of various illegal and crafty acts, among them sending contraband gold and jewels to Mexico.
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British Dictionary definitions for gold mine

gold mine

noun

a place where gold ore is mined

a source of great wealth, profit, etc

Derived forms of gold mine

gold-miner, noungold-mining, noun

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gold mine

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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