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ARNOLD SINKIN, MADOFF FUND INVESTOR: This is what they refer to as the golden years, where you retire and you try and enjoy life.
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- adjective Of, relating to, made of, or containing gold.
- adjective Having the color of gold or a yellow color suggestive of gold.
- adjective Lustrous; radiant: the golden sun.
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ARNOLD SINKIN, MADOFF FUND INVESTOR: This is what they refer to as the golden years, where you retire and you try and enjoy life.
— CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2008 -
ARNOLD SINKIN, MADOFF INVESTOR: This is what they refer to as the golden years.
— CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2008 - She didn’t bother to examine whether taking the golden was a good idea; if she were the type of person to examine what she did before she did it, she’d never have taken Connolly’s case. — html
- They disliked Bilbo and detested Frodo, but so magnificent was the invitation card, written in golden ink, that they had felt it was impossible to refuse. — The Lord of the Rings
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This is what they call the golden hour of trauma.
— CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2007
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- from Middle English golden, a restored form of earlier gulden, gylden, gilden, from Anglo-Saxon gylden (with umlaut) (= Old Saxon guldin = OFries. gelden, golden, gulden = Dutch gouden = Middle Low German golden = Old High German Guldīn, culdīn, Middle High German guldīn (also used as a noun, later G. gulden, florin), G, gülden, usually golden = Icelandic gullinn = Swedish gyllen, gylden = Danish gylden = Goth, gultheins), of gold, from gold, gold: see gold and -en, Cf. gilden, a doublet of golden, and gilden, gulden.
- from golden, adjective
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