name
Meaning 1
A city in Klamath County, Oregon, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
bonanza
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/bəˈnæn.zə/
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rhymes with -ænzə
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CMU ARPABET: B AH0 N AE1 N Z AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A rich mine or vein of silver or gold.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, mining
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: borrasca
noun
Meaning 3
The point at which two mother lodes intersect.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
Anything which is a great source of wealth or yields a large income or return.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, figuratively
Examples
- The popular show quickly became a ratings bonanza for the network.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mother lode
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: boom, gold rush, gravy, godsend, manna from heaven, windfall, bunce
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
noun
Meaning 6
an especially rich vein of precious ore
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: vein, mineral vein
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *melh2-der. Ancient Greek μᾰλᾰκός (mălăkós) Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh2 Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek μᾰλᾰκῐ́ᾱ (mălăkĭ́ā)bor. Latin malacia ▲ Latin bonusinflu. Vulgar Latin *bonacia Spanish bonanzabor. English bonanza Borrowed from Spanish bonanza (“dead calm, fair weather, good luck, rich lode”), from Vulgar Latin *bonacia (“lull, dead calm”), in turn from Latin malacia (“calm sea”), influenced by bonus (“good”) under the false impression that initial mal- is a derivate of malus (“bad”).
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Dutch: goudader — rich mine or vein of silver or gold
- Finnish: emosuoni — rich mine or vein of silver or gold
- Korean: 노다지 (nodaji) — rich mine or vein of silver or gold
- Polish: bonanza — rich mine or vein of silver or gold
- Russian: бона́нца (bonánca) — rich mine or vein of silver or gold
- Ukrainian: бонанца (bonanca) — rich mine or vein of silver or gold
- Ukrainian: золота жила (zolota žyla) — rich mine or vein of silver or gold
- Russian: бона́нца (bonánca) — point at which two mother lodes intersect
- Dutch: goudmijn — something that is a mine of wealth or yields a large income or return
- Finnish: kultakaivos — something that is a mine of wealth or yields a large income or return
- German: Goldgrube — something that is a mine of wealth or yields a large income or return
- Hungarian: aranybánya — something that is a mine of wealth or yields a large income or return
- Indonesian: bonanza — something that is a mine of wealth or yields a large income or return
- Polish: bonanza — something that is a mine of wealth or yields a large income or return
- Russian: золото́е дно (zolotóje dno) — something that is a mine of wealth or yields a large income or return
- Ukrainian: золота жила (zolota žyla) — something that is a mine of wealth or yields a large income or return
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