Gold Coast

noun

1. a former British territory in W Africa; now a part of Ghana.

2. a wealthy residential area along a shore, as in Florida between Miami and Palm Beach or in Chicago along the shore of Lake Michigan.

Gold Coast

noun

1. the former name (until 1957) of Ghana

2. a line of resort towns and beaches in E Australia, extending for over 30 km (20 miles) along the SE coast of Queensland and the NE coast of New South Wales

Example Sentences

She competed at the 2016 Rio Olympics - where Great Britain lost in the bronze medal match - and for England at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on Australia's Gold Coast.

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Ley apologised after using a taxpayer-funded trip to purchase an apartment on Queensland's Gold Coast.

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Four people died - including two British tourists - and several more were seriously injured when the two aircraft hit each other in January 2023, near Sea World on the Gold Coast.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said "the worst is yet to come", and along the Gold Coast, which has been pummelled by bad weather the past few days, conditions are still pretty extreme.

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The wind has been kicking up along Australia's Gold Coast and so too has the swell.

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