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gold fevers

gold fevers is the plural of gold fever.

Meaning of gold fever

Noun

gold fever (countable and uncountable, plural gold fevers)

  1. A feverish obsession with seeking gold ore; an era (figuratively an epidemic) during which this obsession grips a large number of people.
    • He caught a real bad case of the gold fever that was going around at the time.
  2. (figuratively) An excessive craving for profit.

Questions about gold fevers

What is gold fevers the plural of?
Gold fevers is the plural of gold fever.

Words near gold fevers in the dictionary

  1. gold farmer
  2. gold farmers
  3. gold farming
  4. gold farms
  5. gold fever
  6. gold fevers
  7. gold field
  8. gold finch
  9. gold finches
  10. gold fingers
  11. gold fixing

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