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GOLD FEVER

Definition: GOLD FEVER

GOLD FEVER

1. A popular mania for gold hunting.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Specialty Definition: GOLD FEVER

DomainDefinition

Mining

A mania for seeking gold; applied specif. to the excitement caused by thediscovery of gold in California in 1848-49. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Usage: GOLD FEVER

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Gold Fever (1952)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: GOLD FEVER

DomainTitle

Books

  • Gold Fever (reference)

  • Gold Fever [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

  • Gold Fever and the Art of Panning and Sluicing (reference)

  • Gold Fever! (Step into Reading, Step 4, paper) (reference)

  • Gold Fever! Tales from the California Gold Rush (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

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Photo Album: GOLD FEVER

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Gold Fever. Prospectors going to the new Gold Field. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Expressions: GOLD FEVER

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

gold fever

14
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: GOLD FEVER

Language Translations for "GOLD FEVER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

ethe ari. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

златна треска (gold rush). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zlatá horeèka (the gold rush). (various references)

   

German

  

goldfieber. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

aranyláz (gold-fever). (various references)

   

Manx

  

builley yn airh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oldgay everfay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

febre de ouro. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

золотая лихорадка (gold rush, gold-fever). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zlatna groznica (gold rush). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

fiebre de oro. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

guldfeber. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

altına hücum (gold rush). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

золота лихоманка. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: GOLD FEVER

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Cassida, febris, nosogenum:Coxiella burnetii. (various references)

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Anagrams: GOLD FEVER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-f-g-l-o-r-v"

-1 letter: groveled.

-2 letters: foreleg, overfed.

-3 letters: delver, fledge, fodgel, folder, forged, gelder, gloved, glover, golder, golfed, golfer, groved, grovel, ledger, lodger, overed, redleg, refold, rolfed, verged.

-4 letters: defer, defog, delve, devel, drove, edger, elder, elver, erode, fever, fleer, forge, freed, geode, glede, gleed, glove, gofer, gored, greed, grove, ledge, leger, lever, lodge, loved, lover, ogled.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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