golconda

«golconda» in Mova's school dictionary: an old fort and city ruin near Hyderabad in India, once… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a golconda — old, rare); proper noun (Golconda)

meaning for a pupil

1) (a name) Golconda is an old fort and city ruin near Hyderabad in India, once famous for its diamond mines and diamond trade. tree →

2) (old, literary) A golconda is a source of great wealth, like a very rich mine. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history lessons Golconda is famous because some of the world's best-known diamonds, such as the Koh-i-Noor and the Hope Diamond, are believed to come from its mines. In old books, calling something «a golconda» means it is a treasure chest of riches. It is also the name of a famous painting by René Magritte with men in bowler hats falling like rain.

examples

• Golconda Fort stands on a hill near Hyderabad in India. tree →
• The diamonds of Golconda were famous all over the world. tree →
• The Koh-i-Noor diamond is believed to come from the Golconda mines. tree →
• (old) To the explorers, the gold field was a real golconda. tree →
• Magritte's painting Golconda shows men in bowler hats floating in the sky. tree →

note

As a place name it has a capital G. The common-noun sense («a golconda») is old-fashioned and very rare today; «a gold mine» is the everyday phrase.

In the corpora

• Until the 1700s almost all the world's diamonds came from India, from the Golconda region.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «golconda» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.