Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal A rich or plentiful source of something desired.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A place whore gold is or may be mined.
- n. Anything productive of great wealth.
Wiktionary
- n. A mine for gold ore or metal.
- n. idiomatic A very profitable economic venture.
- n. idiomatic A plentiful stockpile of something sought after.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a place where gold is obtained by mining operations, as distinguished from diggings, where it is extracted by washing. Cf. Gold diggings (above).
- n. (Fig.) a rich source of wealth or other good; same as Mine 3.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a good source of something that is desired
- n. a mine where gold ore is found
- n. a good source of something that is desired
- n. a mine where gold ore is found
Examples
“We know a service station’d be a little gold mine yur on the cross-roads.”
“Before that I'm taking a look round a gold mine and then going to the Kruger National Park for a few days.”
“a gold mine in Bruttium, were carefully explored, and the”
“Marci Burt and her potential gold mine of a landscaping client, sitting in one of the sunny front booths of Estia, sipped their lattes and let the deliciousness of the concept sink in.”
“Maybe the indidges have got a gold mine up there.”
“Columbus thought that he smelled Oriental spices, which Marco Polo had described as abounding in Cipango; when he walked by the shore and saw the shells of pearl oysters, he believed the island to be loaded with pearls and precious stones; when he saw a scrap of tinsel or bright metal adorning a native, he argued that there was a gold mine close at hand.”
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