golden
Brassy drummer, brassy chub, etc., a fish found in southeast AsiaBrassy drummer, brassy chub, etc. (Kyphosus vaigiensis), a fish found in southeast Asia.
» Silence is golden.
Schweigen ist Gold. — xtofu80
Молчание - золото. — gleki
Мовчання - золото. — Anjy
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1 sensesBrassy drummer, brassy chub, etc. (Kyphosus vaigiensis), a fish found in southeast Asia.
Examples
223 sentencesSilence is golden.
Мовчання - золото. — Anjy
ruМолчание - золото. — gleki
deSchweigen ist Gold. — xtofu80
Are we living in a golden age?
deLeben wir in einem Goldenen Zeitalter? — Waldelfe
Silence is golden, but not when trying to learn a foreign language.
ruМолчание — золото, но не при изучении иностранного языка. — afyodor
deSchweigen ist Gold, aber nicht, wenn man versucht, eine Fremdsprache zu erlernen. — Sudajaengi
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
ruСлово — серебро, молчание — золото. — al_ex_an_der
deReden ist Silber, Schweigen ist Gold. — MUIRIEL
What's the golden rule?
ruКаково золотое правило? — marafon
Origin
From Middle English golden, a restored form (due to the noun gold) of earlier Middle EngliFrom Middle English golden, a restored form (due to the noun gold) of earlier Middle English gulden, gylden, gilden ("golden"; > English gilden), from Old English gylden (“golden”), from Proto-West Germanic *gulþīn, from Proto-Germanic *gulþīnaz (“golden, made of gold”), equivalent to gold + -en.
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