golden

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, made of, or containing gold.
  2. adjective Having the color of gold or a yellow color suggestive of gold.
  3. adjective Lustrous; radiant: the golden sun.
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  • Retired from the Associated Press after a thirty-year career reporting every global conflict from Vietnam on, she was spending what was commonly referred to as her golden years as a monthly columnist for Travel + Leisure. —  Blindfold Game
  • The light of the sun is by no means 'golden' - it is pure white - and the slightest shade of a tree or bush affords a delicious temperature, so light and fresh is the air. —  Letters from the Cape
  • Published in June 2005 by Penguin Press, Burrough's non-fiction book discusses the development of the FBI and what he calls the golden era of crime. —  Temple Daily Telegram News Feed
  • This is known as the golden age of art and poetry in China. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • I think the point is we're in what I call the golden age of astronomy. —  Universe Today
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  1. 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.
  2. from golden, adjective
 

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