Definition of Gold fever

1. Noun. Greed and the contagious excitement of a gold rush.

Generic synonyms: Fever

Definition of Gold fever

1. Noun. (literally) A feverish obsession to seek gold ore. ¹

2. Noun. (figuratively) An excessive profit craving. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gold Fever

gold casting
gold coast
gold coin
gold coins
gold colloid
gold compound
gold compounds
gold digger
gold diggers
gold dust
gold equivalent
gold farmer
gold farmers
gold farming
gold fern
gold fever (current term)
gold foil
gold general
gold generals
gold inlay
gold isotopes
gold leaf
gold medal
gold medalist
gold medalists
gold medallist
gold medallists
gold medals
gold mine
gold miner

Literary usage of Gold fever

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

1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1894)
"... and surmounted by what Thoreau uses as symbol of the perfect development of character and life—the sphere. EDUCATION VERSUS THE gold fever. ..."

2. Female Life Among the Mormons: A Narrative of Many Years' Personal Experience by Maria Ward, Benjamin G. Ferris (1855)
"THE gold fever, AND ITS EFFECTS. f IKE the breaking out of an epidemic in New ... or Jj some other city of the South, the gold fever broke out, ..."

3. On the South African Frontier: The Adventures and Observations of an by William Harvey Brown (1899)
"... AND A HUNT FOR CLAIMS The Rainy Season at its Worst—The Mining Outlook—A Serious Attack of gold fever —"Thomas Jefferson's" Father Leads us to a Fine ..."

4. Memoirs of Henry Villard, Journalist and Financier, 1835-1900 by Henry Villard (1904)
"CHAPTER VII THE PIKE'S PEAK gold fever.—1858-9 THE real aim of my journalistic efforts was a regular connection with the Anglo-American press. ..."

5. The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries (1916)
"THE gold fever OF 'FORTY-EIGHT AND 'FORTY-NINE. "Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold, Molten, graven, hammered and rolled; ..."

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