Gold Coast
Gold Coast proper noun: a city and local government area in southeastern Queensland, Australia.
Proper noun
Gold Coast
- A city and local government area in southeastern Queensland, Australia.
- Tom Hanks has sent a letter and a Corona brand typewriter to an Australian boy who wrote to him about being bullied about his name, Corona. / Corona De Vries, an eight-year-old from the Gold Coast in Queensland, wrote to the Hollywood star after the actor and his wife, Rita Wilson, spent more than...2020 April 24, “Tom Hanks pens heartfelt letter to bullied Australian boy named Corona”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 10 Jul 2020
- A former colony of Portugal in West Africa comprising its trading outposts along the Gold Coast.
- A former colony of the Netherlands in West Africa comprising its trading outposts along the Gold Coast.
- A former colony of Sweden in West Africa comprising its trading outposts along the Gold Coast.
- A former colony of Denmark in West Africa comprising its trading outposts along the Gold Coast.
- A former colony of Brandenburg and Prussia in West Africa comprising their trading outposts along the Gold Coast.
- A former colony of the United Kingdom in West Africa comprising its trading outposts along the Gold Coast and its further northern conquests, now the independent state of Ghana.
Gold Coast meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Arabic
Gold Coast in Hindi
- Australian city and area
- गोल्ड कोस्ट golḍ kosṭ
Gold Coast in Tamil
- இது ஒரு நாடாகும்
Gold Coast in Bengali
- Australian city and area
- গোল্ড কোস্ট gōlḍo kōsṭ, স্বর্ণ সৈকত śorno śōikot
Gold Coast in Arabic
- Australian city and area
- غُولْد كُوسْت ḡuld kūst
More languagesFewer languages
- Gold Coast in Persian
- گلد کست
- Gold Coast in Thai
- โกลด์โคสต์ gohnkôht
Origin of Gold Coast
In reference to West Africa, a calque of Portuguese Costa do Ouro, named for the export of gold from Ghana's Ashanti Region. In reference to Australia, originally an informal modification of the region's former name South Coast (from its location relative to Brisbane) owing to its relatively high prices during the 1940s and 1950s.
Words formed from Gold Coast
Questions about Gold Coast
- What does Gold Coast mean?
- Gold Coast means a city and local government area in southeastern Queensland, Australia.
- What is Gold Coast in Hindi?
- Gold Coast in Hindi is गोल्ड कोस्ट (golḍ kosṭ). See Gold Coast meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Gold Coast?
- Gold Coast is a proper noun.
Words near Gold Coast in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Gold Coast (page history and authors); Gold Coast (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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