Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any period of feverish migration into an area in which gold has been discovered 2 a cocktail made from bourbon, honey, lemon juice
WordNet
n. a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed lik an assembly line" [syn: boom, bonanza, gravy, godsend, manna from heaven, windfall, bunce]
a large migration of people to a newly discovered gold field
Wikipedia
A gold rush is a new discovery of gold that brings an onrush of miners seeking their fortune. Major gold rushes took place in the 19th century in Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, South Africa, and the United States, while smaller gold rushes took place elsewhere.
The wealth that resulted was distributed widely because of reduced migration costs and low barriers to entry. While gold mining itself was unprofitable for most diggers and mine owners, some people made large fortunes, and the merchants and transportation facilities made large profits. The resulting increase in the world's gold supply stimulated global trade and investment. Historians have written extensively about the migration, trade, colonization, and environmental history associated with gold rushes.
Gold rushes were typically marked by a general buoyant feeling of a "free for all" in income mobility, in which any single individual might become abundantly wealthy almost instantly, as expressed in the California Dream.
Gold rushes helped spur a huge immigration that often led to permanent settlement of new regions. Activities propelled by gold rushes define significant aspects of the culture of the Australian and North American frontiers. At a time when the world's money supply was based on gold, the newly mined gold provided economic stimulus far beyond the gold fields.
Gold rushes extend back as far as gold mining, to the Roman Empire, whose gold mining was described by Diodorus Siculus and Pliny the Elder, and probably further back to Ancient Egypt.
__FORCETOC__ A gold rush is a sharp migration of people to an area found to have significant gold deposits. Famous examples include:
- Australian gold rushes
- Black Hills Gold Rush
- California Gold Rush
- Klondike Gold Rush
(For a more complete list, go to Gold Rush)
It may also refer to:
Gold Rush was a 2006 reality competition created by Mark Burnett and AOL and hosted by Mark Steines. The format was of an internet scavenger hunt that is offering chances to win $US50,000, $100,000 and $1,000,000.
Gold Rush consisted of 13 rounds of game play. In order to qualify for a chance to win, participants had to correctly complete a series of tasks on AOL.com’s Gold Rush hub in order to stockpile virtual gold bars. Many of these tasks consisted of pop culture trivia challenges. Clues to help solve each of the challenges could be found in CBS Television programs and commercials, magazines, radio, song lyrics, and on AOL.
In each round, the first three players who completed the challenges and collected 12 virtual gold bars were taken to a location somewhere in the United States where they competed on-camera in a head-to-head, reality-style competition (the "Gold Competition") for a chance to win $100,000 in gold. In the Finale Round of Gold Rush, the 12 previous $100,000 winners returned, joined by 6 new contestants, to vie for the $1 million grand prize.
Various companies signed on as partners of Gold Rush. Each company’s brand was integrated into various parts of Gold Rush, including game clues and challenges throughout the game.
In a November 2006 interview, Burnett discussed created a second round of Gold Rush, but it did not come to fruition.
Gold Rush (titled Gold Rush: Alaska for the first season) is a reality television series that airs on Discovery. The sixth season of the show began airing in the United States on October 16, 2015.
The show focuses on the mining of gold placer deposits found in the Yukon Territory, Canada by various teams of miners.
Gold Rush is I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business' third full-length studio album. The album was released independently without a label by Ace Enders.
Enders was able to fund Gold Rush by accepting donations from his fans. Approximately 50 songs were written for the album. After deciding which tracks to record for the album, Enders recorded and mastered the album in less than two weeks.
Usage examples of "gold rush".
In later years, after the gold rush, it would be fashionable to depict all emigrants as defeated persons, or as people who could not get along back east, or as the scum of our industrial cities, cast out by a society they could not understand and with which they could not cooperate.
They're going to tell their boss Serbot that the gold rush is coming his way.
When Micah climbed down out of the Sierra Nevadas and started along the Sacrarnento to the booming San Francisco of the gold rush, he was a handsome, tall young man of twenty-seven, with dark eyes and brown hair like his mother and the quick intelligence of his father.
Here I come into a old wagon road which was just about growed up with saplings now, but it run down into a ravine into the bed of the canyon, and they was a bridge acrost the river which had been built during the days of the gold rush.
For the past ten years Aspen has been the showpiece/money-hub of a gold rush that has made millionaires.