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A feverish obsession with seeking gold ore; an era (figuratively an epidemic) during which this obsession grips a large number of people.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- He caught a real bad case of the gold fever that was going around at the time.
- That was during the gold fever, when strangers descended on the town and all the shovels were plum sold out at the general store.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: gold colic, gold hunger, gold mania, gold rush, gold thirst, yellow fever
Antonyms: none provided
An excessive craving for profit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
greed and the contagious excitement of a gold rush
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fever
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Danish:
guldfeber
— fever for gold ore
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Dutch:
goudkoorts
— fever for gold ore
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German:
Goldfieber
— fever for gold ore
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Hungarian:
aranyláz
— fever for gold ore
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Polish:
gorączka złota
— fever for gold ore
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Russian:
золотая лихорадка
(zolotaja lixoradka)
— fever for gold ore
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Ukrainian:
золота́ лихома́нка
(zolotá lyxománka)
— fever for gold ore
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Dutch:
goudkoorts
— profit craving
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Hungarian:
aranyláz
— profit craving
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Polish:
gorączka złota
— profit craving
