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Bonanza

noun

An especially rich vein of precious ore.

A sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money). Synonyms: boom, bunce, godsend, gold rush, gravy, manna from heaven, windfall.

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"Bonanza" Quotes from Famous Books

... places, the table knew no modern enhancement of its solidly handsome fittings. Fong, the Chinese cook—he had been with George Alston before he married—ruled the kitchen and the two "second boys." No women servants were employed; women servants had not been a feature of domestic life in Bonanza days. ...

— Treasure and Trouble Therewith - A Tale of California • Geraldine Bonner

... I. "I'm handling rhinestones and Dr. Oleum Sinapi's Electric Headache Battery and the Swiss Warbler's Bird Call, a small lot of the new queer ones and twos, and the Bonanza Budget, consisting of a rolled-gold wedding and engagement ring, six Egyptian lily bulbs, a combination pickle fork and nail-clipper, and fifty engraved visiting cards—no two names alike—all for the sum ...

— The Gentle Grafter • O. Henry

... place during the years almost immediately following the Civil War, and leads up to the period of the Bonanza discoveries in Nevada, in the early seventies. With such material as this afforded, it is easy to see that an extremely interesting tale can be constructed by so experienced an author as ...

— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 • Various

Words linked to "Bonanza" : manna from heaven, vein, mineral vein, natural event, happening, occurrent, occurrence