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gilden

/ˈɡɪldən/

gilden adjective: golden; made of gold.

Adjective

gilden (comparative more gilden, superlative most gilden)

  1. (obsolete) Golden; made of gold.
    • In summer's day, when Phœbus fairly shone / I saw a Bull as white as driven snow / With gilden horns embowéd like the moon / In a fresh flow'ring meadow lying low1590, Edmund Spenser, Visions of the World's Vanity

Verb

gilden (third-person singular simple present gildens, present participle gildening, simple past and past participle gildened)

  1. (ambitransitive) To make or become golden or gilded
    • A little of his pleasure was in the anticipation of seeing Southern Italy in bloom, now that spring is there. But George had a cold. He went to the Moses Taylor hospital. Next week when the great ship docks in Southern Italy, perhaps the sun will be gildening, there will be color and laughter at...1936, International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers' Journal, page 70
    • Cover of Gospel book with relic of Holy Cross made of Silver, gildened with enamel rosettas.1969, John Rekem, Zobor, the mount and the monastery, page 51

Forms of gilden

Adjective
comparativemore gilden
superlativemost gilden
Verb
third-person singular presentgildens
present participlegildening
past participlegildened
pastgildened

Origin of gilden

From Middle English gilden, gelden, gulden, from Old English gylden, from Proto-West Germanic *gulþīn, from Proto-Germanic *gulþīnaz (“golden”), from *gulþą (“gold”), equivalent to gold + -en. Cognate with Dutch gulden, German gülden, Swedish gyllen.

From gild + -en.

Questions about gilden

What does gilden mean?
Gilden means golden; made of gold.
What part of speech is gilden?
Gilden can be an adjective or a verb.
How do you pronounce gilden?
Gilden is pronounced /ˈɡɪldən/.

Words near gilden in the dictionary

  1. Gilded Chamber
  2. gilded flicker
  3. gilded flickers
  4. gilded the lily
  5. gilded the pill
  6. gilden
  7. gildens
  8. gilder
  9. Gilderoy
  10. gilders
  11. Gildersleeve

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