Noun: bonanza bu'nan-zu
- A sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
"the demand for testing has created a bonanza for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line";
- boom, gold rush, gravy [informal], godsend, manna from heaven, windfall, bunce [Brit, informal]
- An especially rich vein of precious ore
"The miners struck a bonanza of gold in the old mine"; "The discovery of the oil bonanza transformed the local economy"
Derived forms: bonanzas
Type of: happening, mineral vein, natural event, occurrence, occurrent, vein
Encyclopedia: Bonanza, North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region