a monetary system with gold of specified weight and fineness as the unit of value.
Origin
1825-35, Americanism
Examples from the web for gold standard
And then there's the microwave, the gold standard of collegiate cooking appliances.
But the gold standard for being a hominid was upright walking.
As for paper money itself, the end of the gold standard meant that cash had become a total abstraction.
The scientific process is the gold standard for the determination of truth in our day and age.
It's still the gold standard for pinpointing diseases, but for some diseases it doesn't work well.
He stresses, however, that colonoscopies remain the gold standard for diagnosing the disease.
That's good but not quantum-based randomness, which is the gold standard for many physicists.
We really want it to be the gold standard of how you do a conversion.
Where once print journals were the gold standard, there are now other options.
And they set a gold standard up high above his head and let him drift to wind and tide, bewailing him and mourning their loss.
British Dictionary definitions for gold standard
gold standard
noun
1.
a monetary system in which the unit of currency is defined with reference to gold
2.
the supreme example of something against which others are judged or measured: the current gold standard for breast cancer detection
gold standard in Culture
gold standard definition
A system in which a nation's currency has a value measured in gold and can be exchanged for gold. Most nations, including the United States, went off the gold standard in the 1930s.