gild

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡɪld/
• Rhymes: -ɪld
• Homophones: gilled, guild

Verb

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.
2. (transitive) To adorn.
3. (transitive) To make appear drunk.

Derived terms

• gild the lily
• gild the pill

Translations

to cover with a thin layer of gold

• Catalan: daurar (ca)
• Dutch: vergulden (nl)
• Esperanto: orumi (eo)
• Finnish: kullata (fi)
• French: dorer (fr)
• German: vergolden (de)

• Italian: indorare (it)
• Latin: aurō (la), deaurō (la), inaurō (la)
• Polish: pozłacać (pl)
• Romanian: auri (ro)
• Swedish: förgylla (sv)
• Turkish: yaldızlamak (tr)

to adorn

• German: schmücken (de)

• Turkish: süslemek (tr)

to make appear drunk

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• Albanian: aros, praroj

Noun

gild (plural gilds)

1. Alternative form of guild.

See also

• Gild on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• glid

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Gothic

Romanization

gild

1. See 𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌳