gold rush

Noun

Meaning

a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)

a large migration of people to a newly discovered gold field

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

gold-rush

Synonyms

bonanza bunce godsend boom gravy windfall manna from heaven burgundy fiesta fanfare blanket flower gold miner gold fever Booms butterfly flower

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Antonyms

loss debt liability contretemps unfortunate occurrence

Hypernyms

migration occurrence happening occurrent natural event

Examples

The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land. John Jakes

The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise. Wayne Thiebaud

Somewhere between the gold rush of easy internet profits and an arrogant sense of endless empire, we heard kind of a pinging noise, and uh, then the damn thing just died on us. Jon Stewart

DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush. James D. Watson

the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line Source: Internet

1860s: The 'Sleepy Hollow' Exhibition Building and Market Square Clocktower in 1879 (both since demolished) The gold rush had seen Ballarat and Bendigo grow larger than Geelong in terms of population. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

gold purity unit gold record Gold River gold rush state gold rusher gold sand