gold rush
–noun
| a large-scale and hasty movement of people to a region where gold has been discovered, as to California in 1849. |
[Origin: 1875–80, Americanism
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
| gold rush | |
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| 1. | a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line" [syn: boom] |
| 2. | a large migration of people to a newly discovered gold field |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
ˈgold-rush noun
a rush of people to a part of a country where gold has been discovered
See also: as good as gold, gold-mine, golden, goldfish, goldsmith, gold-leaf, gold, gold medal, golden opportunity, "gold rush" in any language
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