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bo·nan·za

(bə-năn′zə)

1. A rich mine, vein, or pocket of ore.

2. A source of great wealth or prosperity.

[Spanish, from Medieval Latin bonacia, calm sea, blend of Latin bonus, good; see deu- in Indo-European roots, and Medieval Latin malacia, calm sea (from Greek malakiā, from malakos, soft; see mel- in Indo-European roots).]

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bonanza

(bəˈnænzə)

1. a source, usually sudden and unexpected, of luck or wealth

2. (Mining & Quarrying) US and Canadian a mine or vein rich in ore

[C19: from Spanish, literally: calm sea, hence, good luck, from Medieval Latin bonacia, from Latin bonus good + malacia dead calm, from Greek malakia softness]

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bo•nan•za

(bəˈnæn zə, boʊ-)

n., pl. -zas.

1. a rich mass of ore, as found in mining.

2. a source of great and sudden wealth or luck; a spectacular windfall.

[1835–45, Amer.; < Sp: literally, smooth sea (hence, good luck, rich vein of ore), akin to Medieval Latin bonacia]

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Noun	1.	bonanza - an especially rich vein of precious ore mineral vein, vein - a layer of ore between layers of rock
	2.	bonanza - a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line" bunce, godsend, gold rush, manna from heaven, windfall, boom, gravy happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent - an event that happens

bonanza

noun boom, jackpot, windfall, boon, good fortune, winning streak, stroke of luck The expected sales bonanza hadn't materialised.

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Translations

velký zisk

boom

Glückssträhne

mine d'or

uppgangur, uppgangstímabil

fonte di ricchezza

aukso kasyklos

peļņas pieaugumszelta bedre’

gullgruve rikt utbytte

veľký zisk

kâr artışı

意想不到的幸运突然的财源

bonanza

[bəˈnænzə] N (fig) (in profits) → bonanza f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

bonanza

[bəˈnænzə] n

(= windfall) → aubaine f

(= boom) → boom m

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bonanza

(US, Min) → reiche Erzader

(fig) → Goldgrube f; the oil bonanza → der Ölboom

adj attr year → Boom-

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

bonanza

[bəˈnænzə] n → periodo di boom

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

bonanza

(bə`nanzə) noun

a sudden increase (in profits etc). Shop keepers in seaside towns enjoy a bonanza in hot summers.

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Then it was that Carmack, his brother-in-law, Skookum Jim, and Cultus Charlie, another Indian, arrived in a canoe at Forty Mile, went straight to the gold commissioner, and recorded three claims and a discovery claim on Bonanza Creek.

"Over beyond Bonanza that was Rabbit Creek," the squaw-man went on.

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It takes a great many quarter sections to make a bonanza farm.

Year after year they scratched it and took out bonanza crops.

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Digging, three days agone, I struck a manure mine!--a Golconda, a limitless Bonanza, of solid manure!

The Bonanza king of the Black Forest lives to a good old age, blessed with the love of his wife and of his twenty-seven children, and the still sweeter envy of everybody around.

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The caretaker was a harpooner who intended sailing next voyage on the whale ship Bonanza. Would I take him, Scotty, over in my skiff to call upon the harpooner?

The harpooner and I wept with him, and swore that all three of us would ship on the whaleship Bonanza, win a big pay-day, and, still together, make a pilgrimage to Edinburgh and lay our store of money in the dear lady's lap.

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and walk off with it for a hundred yards?" demanded Matthewson, a Bonanza King, he of the seven hundred vaunt.

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At twenty-two he went West, in the vague hope of possessing a bonanza farm; then he swung back into telegraphy, and in a few years found himself in the Government Mail Service at Washington.

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Bonanza and Eldorado Kings, with money to burn, were leaving for the Outside because they could buy no grub.

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We travel up Klondike, up Bonanza and Eldorado, over to Indian River, to Sulphur Creek, to Dominion, back across divide to Gold Bottom and to Too Much Gold, and back to Dawson.