golden arches

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Golden Arches¹

Where it comes from

From the large yellow plastic logo of the letter M, from the design of the first restaurants, which incorporated large yellow arches.

proper noun golden arches

  1. 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.
  2. broadly The McDonald's company, or the fast food industry in general.

golden arches²

proper noun

  1. 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.

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"golden arches." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/golden%20arches. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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golden arches. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/golden%20arches

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@misc{golden_arches_2026,
  title = {golden arches},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/golden%20arches},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}