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Golconda
noun as in gold mine
noun as in king's ransom
Example Sentences
Nathan Ryder raises livestock and grows vegetables on 10 acres of pasture in Golconda, Illinois, with his wife and three kids.
Christie’s says the first pink diamonds ever recorded were found in India’s Golconda mines in the 16th century, before others turned up over the centuries in places like Africa, Australia, Brazil and Russia.
Now, Lola learns, Clive, along with Vadis, has launched a new venture called the Golconda, a secretive enterprise run out of an abandoned synagogue.
The diamond lenses - cleaved as a pair from a single natural diamond - are thought to be from the mines of Golconda in southern India.
On a recent morning at Golconda Skate Park, beneath the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, the stars of “Betty” alternated between their defining pursuits: skating and, well, being stars.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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