Usually means: Pyrite, resembling gold; deceives many.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. fool's gold: Merriam-Webster
  2. fool's gold: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fool's gold: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fool's gold, fool's gold: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fool's gold: Vocabulary.com
  6. fool's gold: Wordnik
  7. fool's gold: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fool's gold: Wiktionary
  9. fool's gold: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. fool's gold: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. fool's gold, fools gold: Dictionary.com
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  13. fool's gold: Rhymezone
  14. fools gold: FreeDictionary.org
  15. fool's gold: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. fool's gold, fools gold: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. Fool's gold: Phrase Finder

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fool's Gold: Investopedia

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fools gold, fool's gold: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fool's Gold: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fool's Gold, Fools Gold: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (fool's gold)

noun:  A mineral or other substance often mistaken for gold; mainly iron pyrite.
noun:  (figurative) Something worthless that deceptively seems valuable.

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