gold medal

English

Noun

gold medal (plural gold medals)

1. A medal made of, or having the color of, gold, given as a prize for winning .
   • 2012 August 1, Owen Gibson, “London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal”, in The Guardian Unlimited‎^[1]:

     Great Britain has collected its first gold medal of the London Games after Heather Stanning and Helen Glover won the coxless pairs with a stunning performance that will spark a mass outpouring of celebration and relief across the country.

2. (by extension) Finishing in first position, winning.

Derived terms

• gold medalist/gold medallist

Translations

medal made of, or having the colour of, gold

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 金牌 (zh) (jīnpái)

• Danish: guldmedalje (da) c
• Dutch: gouden medaille (nl) f
• Estonian: kuldmedal
• Finnish: kultamitali (fi), kulta (fi)
• French: médaille d’or (fr) f
• German: Goldmedaille (de) f
• Hungarian: aranyérem (hu)
• Irish: bonn óir m
• Italian: medaglia d'oro f
• Japanese: 金メダル (ja) (きんメダル, kinmedaru)
• Korean: 금메달 (ko) (geummedal)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gullmedalje m

  Nynorsk: gullmedalje m

• Polish: złoty medal (pl) m
• Portuguese: medalha de ouro f
• Romanian: medalie de aur f
• Russian: золота́я меда́ль f (zolotája medálʹ)
• Spanish: medalla de oro f
• Swedish: guldmedalj (sv)
• Turkish: altın madalya (tr)

See also

• silver medal
• bronze medal
• blue ribbon

Further reading

• gold medal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia