Synonyms for gold standard
gold stan·dard

Princeton's WordNet

1. gold standardnoun

   a monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is defined by a stated quantity of gold

2. gold standardnoun

   a paragon of excellence

   "academic education is the gold standard against which other educational activity is pejoratively judged"

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Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. gold standard

   Synonyms:
   Criterion standard, definitive standard, reference standard

2. gold standard

   Synonyms:
   Criterion standard

Suggested Resources

1. gold standard

   Read the full text of the Gold Standard poem by Kurt Philip Behm on the Poetry.com website.

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1. Donald Trump:

   He has been called the Senate’s indispensable man and the gold standard.

2. Bernie Sanders:

   I hear Secretary Clinton is in Ohio tonight talking about how concerned she is about the auto industry -- an industry decimated by the North American Free Trade Agreement and normalized trade with China. She supported those bad deals. I opposed them, now she says she wants to make it tougher for automobiles to be imported to this country under the disastrous Trans-Pacific Partnership. That's the deal she called the 'gold standard' when she was secretary of state.

3. Leana Wen:

   If you have symptoms or were substantially exposed to someone with Covid-19, you should go get a PCR test. That's the gold standard, the at-home antigen tests should be used, ideally, when you are asymptomatic and the likelihood of you having Covid is pretty low, but you're using it for assurance purposes.

4. Guy Jarvis:

   We believe the approach we've proposed is the gold standard to allowing all participants to participate.

5. William Jennings Bryan:

   Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country. We will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.