golden
要点金の、金色の
意味
- 金の,金製の
- 金色の,黄金色の
- (金のように)貴重な,すばらしい
例文
Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
金の卵を生むガチョウを殺すな。
Now we have a seven-day Golden Week holiday.
今、7日間の「ゴールデンウィーク」の休日です。
It was Tom's first time to see the Golden Gate Bridge.
ゴールデンゲートブリッジを見るのは、トムにとって初めてだった。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English golden, a restored form (due to the noun gold) of earlier Middle English gulden, gylden, gilden ("golden"; > English gilden), from Old English gylden (“golden”), from Proto-West Germanic *gulþīn, from Proto-Germanic *gulþīnaz (“golden, made of gold”), equivalent to gold + -en. Cognate with Dutch gouden, gulden (“golden”), German gülden, golden (“golden”), Danish gylden (“golden”). Doublet of gilden. More at gold.