golden

Meanings

Adjective

• Made of, or relating to, gold.
• Having a colour or other richness suggestive of gold.
• Of a beverage, flavoured or colored with turmeric.
• Marked by prosperity, creativity etc.
• Advantageous or very favourable.
• Relating to a fiftieth anniversary.
• Relating to the elderly or retired.
• Fine, without problems.

Noun

• Kyphosus vaigiensis (species), a fish found in southeast Asia.

Verb

• To become gold or golden (in colour).
• To make golden or like gold.

Origin

• From Middle English golden, a restored form (due to the noun gold) of earlier Middle English gulden, gylden, gilden, from Old English gylden ("golden"), from Proto-Germanic *gulþīnaz ("golden, made of gold"), equivalent to gold + -en. Cognate with Dutch gouden, gulden, German gülden, golden, Danish gylden ("golden"). More at gold.
• From gold + -en, or perhaps a derivation from the adjective above.