Difference between Golden and Fortunate

What is the difference between Golden and Fortunate?

Golden as an adjective is made of, or relating to, gold. while Fortunate as an adjective is coming by good luck or favorable chance.

Golden

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Made of, or relating to, gold. Having a colour or other richness suggestive of gold. Marked by prosperity, creativity etc. Advantageous or very favourable. Relating to a fiftieth anniversary.

Example sentence: Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

Fortunate

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Coming by good luck or favorable chance.Bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain.Presaging happiness.Auspicious.Receiving some unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good which was not dependent on one's own skill or efforts.Lucky, favored by fortune.

Example sentence: It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

We hope you now know whether to use Golden or Fortunate in your sentence.

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