yellow vs gold

yellow and gold both are nouns.

yellow and gold both are adjectives.

yellow is a verb but gold is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
yellow	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
gold	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, gold is a hyponym of yellow; that is, gold is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than yellow:

yellow: yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons
gold: a deep yellow color

Other hyponyms of yellow include canary, canary yellow, amber, brownish yellow, gamboge, lemon, lemon yellow, maize, old gold, orange yellow, saffron, pale yellow, straw, wheat, greenish yellow.

yellow (noun)	gold (noun)
yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons	a deep yellow color
	something likened to the metal in brightness or preciousness or superiority etc.
	coins made of gold
	great wealth
	a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia

yellow (adjective)	gold (adjective)
of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk	having the deep slightly brownish color of gold
easily frightened	made from or covered with gold
cowardly or treacherous
changed to a yellowish color by age
typical of tabloids
affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc

yellow (verb)	gold (verb)
turn yellow

Difference between yellow and gold

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