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white gold

white gold noun: any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal such as platinum or palladium or other white metal such as nickel.

Noun

white gold (countable and uncountable, plural white golds)

  1. (countable) Any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal such as platinum or palladium or other white metal such as nickel.
    • It’s a slender band of white gold. It’ll be rather lovely once it fades.2022, Hernan Diaz, Trust, Picador (2023), page 371
  2. Cotton
  3. Sugar
  4. China or porcelain
  5. Cocaine.
    • Fleets of planes flew in their daily cargo of white gold, first extracted from coca leaves in Peru or Bolivia and then refined in Colombia.1989, Gabriel G. Nahas, Helene Peters, Cocaine: The Great White Plague, page 122
  6. (obsolete, uncountable) Platinum.

white gold meaning in Tamil, Persian, Thai and Vietnamese

white gold in Tamil

வெண்பொன்

white gold in Persian

any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal
طلا سفید talâ-sefid, اسپیدزر espid-zarr

white gold in Thai

any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal
ทองขาว tɔɔng-kǎao, ทองคำขาว tɔɔng-kam-kǎao

white gold in Vietnamese

any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal
vàng trắng

Forms of white gold

pluralwhite golds

Questions about white gold

What does white gold mean?
White gold means any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal such as platinum or palladium or other white metal such as nickel.
What is white gold in Tamil?
White gold in Tamil is வெண்பொன். See White gold meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is white gold?
White gold is a noun.
What is the plural of white gold?
The plural of white gold is white golds.

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