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Gold rush   /goʊld rəʃ/   Listen
Gold rush

noun
1.
A sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money).  Synonyms: bonanza, boom, bunce, godsend, gravy, manna from heaven, windfall.
2.
A large migration of people to a newly discovered gold field.





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"Gold rush" Quotes from Famous Books



... school for a time after that, and at last began really to take an interest in education. But the Pike's Peak gold rush took me with it. I could never resist the call of the trail. With another boy who knew as little of gold-mining as I did we hired out with a bull-train ...
— An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) • Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody)


Words linked to "Gold rush" :   migration, occurrent, happening, occurrence, natural event


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