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golden arches

golden arches is the alternative letter-case form of Golden Arches.

Proper noun capitalized: Golden Arches

Golden Arches

  1. A McDonald's restaurant.
    • Suzan-Lori Parks is drawn to archways. Early on in her New York life, long before she became one of the nation’s most acclaimed playwrights, she lived above a McDonald’s on Sixth Avenue — the Golden Arches.2022 October 5, Michael Paulson, “Suzan-Lori Parks Is on Broadway, Off Broadway and Everywhere Else”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2022
  2. (broadly) The McDonald's company, or the fast food industry in general.

Forms of golden arches

alternative formgolden arches

Origin of golden arches

From the large yellow plastic logo of the letter M, from the design of the first restaurants, which incorporated large yellow arches.

Questions about golden arches

What does golden arches mean?
Golden arches means a McDonald's restaurant.
What is golden arches the alternative letter-case form of?
Golden arches is the alternative letter-case form of Golden Arches.
What part of speech is golden arches?
Golden arches is a proper noun.

Words near golden arches in the dictionary

  1. golden alyssum
  2. golden anniversaries
  3. golden anniversary
  4. golden apple
  5. golden apples
  6. golden arches
  7. golden aster
  8. golden bamboo
  9. golden bamboos
  10. Golden Banana
  11. golden bandicoot

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: golden arches (page history and authors); Golden Arches (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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