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gold rush
noun
- a large-scale and hasty movement of people to a region where gold has been discovered, as to California in 1849.
gold rush
noun
- a large-scale migration of people to a territory where gold has been found
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of gold rush1
An Americanism dating back to 1875–80
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"It felt like a gold rush," he says.
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Most directly, “The Antidote” harkens to Eleanor Catton’s Booker award winning “The Luminaries,” which centers around the mysteries of a gold rush port town in New Zealand.
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Portugal colonized Brazil at the time and there was a massive gold rush: Nothing like it had been seen before and nothing like it would be seen again until 1849 in San Francisco.
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Yet while Greenland may be sitting on mineral riches, any "gold rush" continues to be slow to materialise.
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San Francisco had burned often before — five times in two years, right after the gold rush began.
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