GOLDEN, a. goldn. Made of gold consisting of gold.
1. Bright shining splendid as the golden sun.
Reclining soft on many a golden cloud.
2. Yellow of a gold color as a golden harvest golden fruit.
3. Excellent most valuable as the golden rule.
4. Happy pure as the golden age, the age of simplicity and purity of manners.
5. Preeminently favorable or auspicious.
Let not slip the golden opportunity.
Golden number, in chronology, a number showing the year of the moon's cycle.
Golden rule, in arithmetic, the rule of three or rule of proportion.
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