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Plural of gilt

regular plural

The plural of gilt is gilts.

Forms of gilt

Singulargilt /ɡɪlt/
Pluralgilts
Countablecountable and uncountable

Gilts in a sentence

  • However, as asset prices slumped over the week – including UK government bonds, or gilts – those banks required more collateral to offset the pension funds’ liabilities, forcing the funds to dump assets and raise cash at short notice.2022 September 29, Kalyeena Makortoff, Sarah Butler, “‘I’d never seen anything like it’: how market turmoil sparked a pension fund...

Meaning of gilt

  1. noun Gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding.
  2. noun Gold-colored paint or other coating.
  3. noun Money.

Full definition of gilt

Questions about the plural of gilt

What is the plural of gilt?
The plural of gilt is gilts.
Is gilt countable?
Gilt is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gilt (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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