Definitions for gold-rush

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Gold-Rush is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 218 anagrams from letters in gold-rush (-dghlorsu).

Definitions for gold-rush

noun

  1. 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 for gold-rush

With the action, the US joined New Zealand as the only industrialized nations to allow DTC advertising and the gold rush was on.

Later in the gold rush there were many scores of such cases.

He headed west in 1860 for health reasons and to join the gold rush in Colorado.

So, Schmidt followed the gold rush to the El Paso mountains and claimed an area of mining land.

Still, like any gold rush, several investors are staking their claim.

So, you see, we have had a gold rush created at our very doors.

In 1896, lured by the gold rush, he left for California with his mother, then a widow.

It resembled the gold rush to California in 1849 more than any other similar event.

That was the beginning of the gold rush, and a rush it was, you may be sure.

The US first considered the idea in the 1820s, but interest was revived in earnest after the California gold rush began in 1849.

Word Value for gold-rush
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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