golds

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of gold.

   The swimmer added two more golds to her medal collection in Tokyo.

   Designers mixed warm and cool golds across the wallpaper pattern.

   Note

   Only some meanings of the noun can take a plural. The metal itself is a mass noun, so you buy gold, not golds. The countable uses are the ones that pluralize: medals won (three golds at one Games), bullseyes struck in archery, and coins. When golds names shades of the color, it works like other color words that pluralize to mean varieties: warm golds, pale golds.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present indicative of gold.

   Note

   The verb behind this form works two ways. It can mean making something look golden (evening light golds the hills), or taking on that look itself (the wheat golds in October). The spelling is shared with the plural noun, so the sentence decides which one you have. After a subject, as in the sunset golds the sky, it is the verb. After a number, as in two golds, it is the noun.

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