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gold medal

noun

gold medal is a noun meaning “A medal made of, or having the color of, gold, given as a prize for winning” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-O-L-D-M-E-D-A-L. The plural of gold medal is gold medals.

What does gold medal mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A medal made of, or having the color of, gold, given as a prize for winning.

  2. 2

    Finishing in first position, winning.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce gold medal?

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-gold_medal.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of gold medal

  • gold medals plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Gold medal in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense medal made of, or having the colour of, gold:

LanguageWords
Frenchmédaille d'or
GermanGoldmedaille
Portuguesemedalha de ouro
Spanishmedalla de oro

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.