# golden

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ˈɡəʊl.dən/ · frequency rank #2,156

## Definitions
1. Made of, or relating to, gold.
2. Having a color or other richness suggestive of gold.
3. Of a beverage, flavoured or colored with turmeric.
4. Marked by prosperity, creativity etc.
5. Advantageous or very favourable.
6. Relating to a fiftieth anniversary.
7. Relating to the elderly or retired.
8. Fine, without problems.

## Etymology
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.

## Easily confused with
- **golds** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/golden-vs-golds)
- **goode** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/golden-vs-goode)
- **golem** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/golden-vs-golem)
- **gotten** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/golden-vs-gotten)
- **Gordon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/golden-vs-gordon)
- **golfer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/golden-vs-golfer)
- **Goldie** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/golden-vs-goldie)
- **Goshen** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/golden-vs-goshen)
- **Goldman** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/golden-vs-goldman)
- **Golding** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/golden-vs-golding)
- **Goldwyn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/golden-vs-goldwyn)
- **gold** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gold-vs-golden)
- **glen** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/glen-vs-golden)
- **Galen** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/galen-vs-golden)
- **Golan** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/golan-vs-golden)
- **garden** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/garden-vs-golden)
- **gilded** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gilded-vs-golden)

## Common misspellings (9)
`ggolden`, `gloden`, `godlen`, `goldden`, `goldenn`, `goldne`, `goledn`, `gollden`, `oglden`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/golden