golden
adjective
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golden
1 American
[gohl-duhn]
/ ˈgoʊl dən /
adjective
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bright, metallic, or lustrous like gold; of the color of gold; yellow.
golden hair.
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made or consisting of gold.
golden earrings.
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exceptionally valuable, advantageous, or fine.
a golden opportunity.
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having glowing vitality; radiant.
golden youth.
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full of happiness, prosperity, or vigor.
golden hours;
a golden era of exploration.
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highly talented and favored; destined for success.
television's golden boy.
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richly soft and smooth.
a golden voice.
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indicating the fiftieth event of a series.
a golden wedding anniversary.
Golden
2
American
[gohl-duhn]
/ ˈgoʊl dən /
noun
golden
British
/ ˈɡəʊldən /
adjective
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of the yellowish or brownish-yellow metallic colour of gold
golden hair
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made from or largely consisting of gold
a golden statue
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happy or prosperous
golden days
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(sometimes capital) (of anniversaries) the 50th in a series
Golden Jubilee
golden wedding
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informal very successful or destined for success
the golden girl of tennis
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extremely valuable or advantageous
a golden opportunity
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of golden
Explanation
Something that's golden is made out of gold. A queen in a fairy tale might wear an elaborate golden crown. Aside from golden ornaments and jewelry, things the color of gold are also golden, like a boy's golden hair or golden fields of wheat. If you talk about a golden time or a golden opportunity, you mean something marked by luck, peace, and happiness. In Old English, it was common to add the suffix -en to mean "made of," but golden is one of just a few of these words in modern English (including wooden and waxen).
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Friedman repeatedly has said he would like this era to be remembered as “the golden age of Dodger baseball,” and nothing says legacy like doing something that never has been done.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The cut comes at a time when other countries are investing in their own national observatories to prepare for, what many astronomers believe will be, the dawn of a golden age in radio astronomy.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Thirteen of the 14 dogs seized by the Newport Beach Beach Animal Control were puppies, including two 6-week-old golden retriever puppies that were in critical condition because of untreated parasites.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Thames Water's main lenders are offering the government a "golden share" and more control for local authorities in a bid to stop the troubled supplier from being nationalised.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
The corn was tall and golden, and for once even poor folks like us felt like they might have cash in their pockets come fall.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
The most recent ceremony saw prominent nominations for Blackpink star Rosé, who opened the show with her smash Bruno Mars collaboration APT, and the song Golden from KPop Demon Hunters.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Among the purposes cited in the suit include an attempt “to use more than $275,000 in charitable funds for the for-profit Globes LLC’s Golden Globes viewing party.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
"Chances are this El Nino is going to be stronger than the 2015-2016 one," Leising said, noting that a decade ago, the oceanic heat wave was devastating for the Golden State.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
“If you’re running a text past AI to check whether it sounds OK, you’re kind of slowly teaching yourself that your own read can’t be trusted,” Golden says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
I’d led the iron monsters to MidPass, to the Golden Crescent, to Isihlangu.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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