Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
gold rush ExamplesWord Origin noun
- a large-scale and hasty movement of people to a region where gold has been discovered, as to California in 1849.
Origin of gold rush An Americanism dating back to 1875–80 Examples from the Web for gold rush Contemporary Examples of gold rush
For years, William Schmidt single-handedly dug a tunnel through a mountain to transport his gold-rush loot.
The Mole Man’s Tunnel to Nowhere
Nina Strochlic
November 28, 2014
Historical Examples of gold rush
He taught me the game of cribbage, and the old game of gold-rush days—solo.
Dama Margaret Smith
Then, more than forty years ago, came the gold-rush away up in the Stikine River country.
James Oliver Curwood
After the gold-rush of 1849 new types of reapers sprang up on all sides.
Herbert Newton Casson
At the very commencement of the gold-rush a hole had been sunk in Deadman’s Flat, and soon afterwards deserted.
B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon
But Virginia had an advantage which the far west of the gold-rush days lacked.
Religious Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
George MacLaren Brydon
British Dictionary definitions for gold rush gold rush noun
- a large-scale migration of people to a territory where gold has been found