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Definition: Golden Chain |
Golden ChainNoun1. An ornamental shrub or tree of the genus Laburnum; often cultivated for Easter decorations. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Golden Chain "Faith is the golden chain to link the penitent sinner unto God" (Jeremy Taylor). The allusion is to a passage in Homer's Iliad (i. 19-30), where Zeus says, If a golden chain were let down from heaven, and all the gods and goddesses pulled at one end, they would not be able to pull him down to earth; whereas he could lift with ease all the deities and all created things besides with his single might. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: Golden ChainSynonyms: common laburnum (n), golden rain (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
World | Phrase: die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltergesicht; "earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice of God"; "green calm below, blue quietness above"; "hanging in a golden chain this pendant World"; "nothing in nature is unbeautiful"; "silently as a dream the fabric rose"; "some touch of nature's genial glow"; "this majestical roof fretted with golden fire"; "through knowledge we behold the World's creation". |
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Clever | Friendship is a golden chain, the links are friends so dear; and like a rare and precious jewel, it's treasured more each year. (references; author: unknown) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. |
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Expression using "golden chain": alpine golden chain. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
golden chain tree | 53 |
golden chain | 17 |
golden chain motel | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "golden chain"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | златно синджирче. (various references) | |
Czech | zlatý řetízek. (various references) | |
Hungarian | aranylánc. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 金鎖 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きんぐさり. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oldengay ainchay.(various references) | |
Russian | ракитник (golden shower-chain, laburnum). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zlatan lanac. (various references) | |
Turkish | altın zincir. (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-g-h-i-l-n-n-o" | |
-2 letters: anhedonic, chelonian, coheading, coleading, congenial, deaconing, enhaloing, genocidal. | |
-3 letters: candling, canoeing, cleaning, encoding, enlacing, handling, headlong, hondling, ladening, leaching, longhand, longhead, nonideal. | |
-4 letters: alencon, aligned, aneling, angelic, anglice, annelid, cannoli, celadon, chained, chalone, changed, channel, cheloid, chignon, chinned, chinone, choline, clanged, clinged, cloning, coaling, codeina, codling, coigned, coinage, condign, congaed, congeal, dancing, dealing. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-g-h-i-l-n-n-o" | |
+3 letters: dechlorinating. | |
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