gild

• IPA^(key): /ɡɪld/

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• Rhymes: -ɪld
• Homophones: gilled, guild

From Middle English gilden, gulden, from Old English gyldan (“to gild, to cover with a thin layer of gold”), from Proto-West Germanic *gulþijan, from Proto-Germanic *gulþijaną, from Proto-Germanic *gulþą (“gold”).

gild (third-person singular simple present gilds, present participle gilding, simple past and past participle gilded or gilt)

1. (transitive) To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf.

   Hypernym: gold

   • 1888 May, Oscar Wilde, “The Happy Prince”, in The Happy Prince and Other Tales, London: David Nutt, […], →OCLC, page 1:

     High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on his sword-hilt.

2. (transitive) To adorn.
   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vi]:

     I will make fast the doors, and gild myself
     With some more ducats, and be with you straight.

3. (transitive, cooking) To decorate with a golden surface appearance.

   Hypernym: gold

   • 2008, Ivan P. Day, Cooking in Europe, 1650-1850, page 98:

     Gild the entire outside with beaten egg yolk, and sprinkle it with grated parmesan.

4. (transitive) To give a bright or pleasing aspect to.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 28”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     When sparkling stars twire not, thou gild'st the even.

5. (transitive) To make appear drunk.

gild (plural gilds)

1. Obsolete spelling of guild.
   • 1920, H. E. Salter, Munimenta Civitatis Oxonie, volume 71, page xxviii:

     No trade gild might be started without the consent of the whole body of hanasters, who would insist that the regulations were not harmful to the burgesses as a whole; […]

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• DILG, glid

gild

1. Romanization of 𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌳

From English guild.

gild m (genitive singular gild, nominative plural gildeanna)

1. (historical) guild

   Synonym: cuallacht

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gild”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “guild”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “gild”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

From Old Norse gildr, from Proto-Germanic *gildiz. Cognates include Icelandic gildur and Scots yauld.

• IPA^(key): /jɪlː/

gild (neuter gildt, definite singular and plural gilde, comparative gildare, indefinite superlative gildast, definite superlative gildaste)

1. (also law) valid

   Antonym: ugild

2. nice, healthy, rich, capable
3. kind, good
4. enjoyable
5. happy
6. proud

• gilda (verb)

• gilde n
• gjelda

• “gild” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /jild/, [jiɫd]

ġild n

1. Alternative form of ġield

gild

1. strong feminine nominative singular of gildr
2. strong neuter nominative plural of gildr
3. strong neuter accusative plural of gildr