
gold field ExamplesWord Origin noun
- an area or district where gold is mined.
Origin of gold field First recorded in 1850–55 Examples from the Web for gold field Historical Examples of gold field
He also received a grant of a piece of land on the site of the first gold-field.
Australian Heroes and Adventurers
William Pyke
Here I was in the ninth year of my captivity, working hard in my own gold-field.
Douglas Frazar
It looks to me a whole lot more like an iceberg than it does like a gold-field!
Francis Rolt-Wheeler
But all had gone up the river—to their gold-field, of course—and no one knew where that might be.
Frederick Boyle
I will not attempt a long description of this the first gold-field I was ever on.
Thorvald Weitemeyer