platinum

Etymology

From Spanish platina (“little silver”) del Pinto ("of the Pinto") + -um. It was called "little" (or "lesser") silver because the metal was found as an impurity in gold, and del Pinto for the Pinto River in Grand Columbia where Europeans discovered it being mined by Native Americans.

noun

1. The chemical element with atomic number 78 and symbol Pt; a dense, malleable, ductile, highly unreactive, silverish-white transition metal of great value.
2. A whitish grey colour, like that of the metal.
   platinum:
3. (music) A single or album that has achieved platinum sales, i.e. over 1 million or 2 million.
4. (medicine, sometimes, elliptically) A platinum-based drug: a platin.

adj

1. Of a whitish grey colour, like that of the metal.
2. Of a musical recording that has sold over one million copies (for singles), or two million (for albums).
3. Very expensive, or of very high quality
   We can offer the platinum service for fifty dollars extra.

verb

1. (computer games) to reach platinum level in a game
   I platinumed in Clash of Clans yesterday.