Meanings
golden arches1
- Alternative letter-case form of Golden Arches.
I wish I could make everyone a BLT. That would be the end of the golden arches, I'm sure of it.
2010, Michele A. Jordan, The BLT Cookbook, Harper Collins, →ISBN, pages 5–6
Golden Arches2
alternative golden arches
- A McDonald's restaurant.
Suzan-Lori Parks is drawn to archways. Early on in her New York life, long before she became one of the nation’s most acclaimed playwrights, she lived above a McDonald’s on Sixth Avenue — the Golden Arches.
2022 October 5, Michael Paulson, “Suzan-Lori Parks Is on Broadway, Off Broadway and Everywhere Else”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2022 - broadlyThe McDonald's company, or the fast food industry in general.
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
From the large yellow plastic logo of the letter M, from the design of the first restaurants, which incorporated large yellow arches.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
golden arches. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/golden%20arches
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