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Definition of Gold fever
1. Noun. Greed and the contagious excitement of a gold rush.
Definition of Gold fever
1. Noun. (literally) A feverish obsession to seek gold ore. ¹
2. Noun. (figuratively) An excessive profit craving. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gold Fever
Literary usage of Gold fever
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1894)
"... and surmounted by what Thoreau uses as symbol of the perfect development of
character and life—the sphere. EDUCATION VERSUS THE gold fever. ..."
2. Female Life Among the Mormons: A Narrative of Many Years' Personal Experience by Maria Ward, Benjamin G. Ferris (1855)
"THE gold fever, AND ITS EFFECTS. f IKE the breaking out of an epidemic in New
... or Jj some other city of the South, the gold fever broke out, ..."
3. On the South African Frontier: The Adventures and Observations of an by William Harvey Brown (1899)
"... AND A HUNT FOR CLAIMS The Rainy Season at its Worst—The Mining Outlook—A
Serious Attack of gold fever —"Thomas Jefferson's" Father Leads us to a Fine ..."
4. Memoirs of Henry Villard, Journalist and Financier, 1835-1900 by Henry Villard (1904)
"CHAPTER VII THE PIKE'S PEAK gold fever.—1858-9 THE real aim of my journalistic
efforts was a regular connection with the Anglo-American press. ..."
5. The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries (1916)
"THE gold fever OF 'FORTY-EIGHT AND 'FORTY-NINE. "Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and
yellow, hard and cold, Molten, graven, hammered and rolled; ..."
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