Gilded vs. Gold — What's the Difference?

To cover with or as if with a thin layer of gold.

Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from Latin: aurum) and atomic number 79, making it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. In a pure form, it is a bright, slightly reddish yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal.

To give an often deceptively attractive or improved appearance to.

A yellow precious metal, the chemical element of atomic number 79, used especially in jewellery and decoration and to guarantee the value of currencies.

(Archaic) To smear with blood.

A deep lustrous yellow or yellow-brown colour

Simple past tense and past participle of gild

Coins or other articles made of gold

Having the color or quality of gold.

The bullseye of an archery target.

Made of gold or covered by a thin layer of gold.

Symbol Au A soft, yellow, corrosion-resistant element, the most malleable and ductile metal, occurring in veins and alluvial deposits and recovered by mining, panning, or sluicing. A good thermal and electrical conductor, gold is generally alloyed to increase its strength, and it is used as a common monetary standard, in jewelry, for decoration, and as a plated coating on a wide variety of electrical and mechanical components. Atomic number 79; atomic weight 196.967; melting point 1,064.2°C; boiling point 2,856.0°C; specific gravity 19.3; valence 1, 3. See Periodic Table.

Having a falsely pleasant appearance; sugarcoated.

Coinage made of this element.

Having the deep slightly brownish color of gold;

A gold standard.

Based on pretense; deceptively pleasing;

Money; riches.

Rich and superior in quality;

A light olive-brown to dark yellow, or a moderate, strong to vivid yellow.

Made from or covered with gold;

Something regarded as having great value or goodness

A medal made of gold awarded to one placing first in a competition, as in the Olympics

Having the color of gold.

(uncountable) A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au.

A coin or coinage made of this material, or supposedly so.

(uncountable) A deep yellow colour, resembling the metal gold.

(countable) The bullseye of an archery target.

(countable) A gold medal.

(figuratively) Anything or anyone that is very valuable.

A grill jewellery worn on front teeth made of gold.

Made of gold.

Having gold of gold.

(of commercial services) Premium, superior.

Of a musical recording: having sold 500,000 copies.

In a finished state, ready for manufacturing.

To appear or cause to appear golden.

Of or referring to a gold version of something

An old English name of some yellow flower, - the marigold (Calendula), according to Dr. Prior, but in Chaucer perhaps the turnsole.

A metallic element of atomic number 79, constituting the most precious metal used as a common commercial medium of exchange. It has a characteristic yellow color, is one of the heaviest substances known (specific gravity 19.32), is soft, and very malleable and ductile. It is quite unalterable by heat (melting point 1064.4° C), moisture, and most corrosive agents, and therefore well suited for its use in coin and jewelry. Symbol Au (Aurum). Atomic weight 196.97.

Money; riches; wealth.

A yellow color, like that of the metal; as, a flower tipped with gold.

Figuratively, something precious or pure; as, hearts of gold.

Coins made of gold

A deep yellow color;

A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia

Great wealth;

Something likened to the metal in brightness or preciousness or superiority etc.;

Made from or covered with gold;

Having the deep slightly brownish color of gold;