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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1. • Paragon
   • Standard

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

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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. Alison Edelman:

   We have our gold standard of what we provide – the safest, most effective regimen – and then if it’s not available, we use the next best one. And that’s what we would be left with.

2. Bernie Sanders:

   We put forward the strongest set of principles in terms of mandatory training, in terms of women, if they felt harassed, having an independent firm that they can go to, and I think that that's kind of the gold standard of what we should be doing.

3. Du Plessis:

   That is where MRI is the gold standard for picking up changes in the brain, even though it has limitations in terms of availability and cost.

4. Gerard Cote:

   The way they diagnose malaria now is with a microscope but it is with a big bench top microscope that is relatively complicated to use, takes a trained technician, and you have to have the facility for that scope in a centralized lab somewhere. So basically what we are taking is that gold standard and making it into a portable device.

5. Amir Ghaferi:

   Gastric bypass is considered the gold standard, but over the past five or six years, there have been more sleeve gastrectomy procedures.