Lexic.us

Definition of Gold rush

1. Noun. A sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money). "The demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line"

2. Noun. A large migration of people to a newly discovered gold field.

Definition of Gold rush

1. Noun. Any period of feverish migration into an area in which gold has been discovered ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gold Rush

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Literary usage of Gold rush

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Adventure Guide to the Inside Passage and Coastal Alaska by Lynn Readicker-Henderson (2002)
"It was the only sure way to get rich off the gold rush (one estimate says ... After the gold rush The railroad was leased by the US War Department in 1942 ..."

2. A History of California: The American Period by Robert Glass Cleland (1922)
"... XVII THE gold rush THE Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, by which California formally became a part of the United States, was signed February 2, 1848. ..."

3. The Democratic Party of the State of New York: A History of the Origin by James K. McGuire, Martin Wilie Littleton (1905)
"gold rush to California in 1849—Inauguration of Zachary Taylor— Closing of the Seventy-second Legislature—Death of James K. Polk—Conventions and Elections ..."

4. The Rise of Business Corporations in India, 1851-1900 by Shyam Rungta (1970)
"CHAPTER 8 THE gold rush IN SOUTHERN INDIA Of all man's explorations the search for gold has held the most powerful fascination. ..."

5. The Quarterly (1901)
"The gold rush—that is, a rush to unknown and unexplored regions on a rumor that rich deposits of the precious metals abounded there—did not originate with ..."

6. Southern California Quarterly by Los Angeles County Pioneers of Southern California, Historical Society of Southern California (1898)
"In the Klondike excitement the old-time "gold rush" has come again. It is more than a third of a century since we had a genuine epidemic gold rush. ..."

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