guild

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English

Etymology

From Middle English gilde, from Old Norse gildi (“payment, guild”)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

Wikipedia guild (plural guilds)

1. A group of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans, particularly in the Middle Ages
2. (biology) A group of diverse species that share common characteristics or habits

Synonyms

• (group of tradespeople): union, trade union, professional association

Translations

association of tradespeople

• Armenian: գիլդիա (hy) (gildia) , համքարություն (hy) (hamkʿarutʿyun) 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 行會 (cmn), 行会 (cmn) (hánghuì), 同業公會 (cmn), 同业公会 (cmn) (tóngyè gōnghuì), 公會 (cmn), 公会 (cmn) (gōnghuì)

• Czech: cech (cs) m
• Danish: lav (da)
• Dutch: gilde (nl) n
• Esperanto: gildo (eo)
• Finnish: kilta (fi)
• French: guilde (fr)
• German: Gilde (de) f, Zunft (de) f

• Hungarian: céh (hu)
• Ido: gildo (io)
• Italian: gilda (it)
• Japanese: ギルド (ja) (girudo)
• Norwegian: laug (no)
• Polish: gildia (pl), cech (pl)
• Portuguese: guilda (pt) f
• Russian: гильдия (ru) (gílʹdija) f 
• Serbo-Croatian: ceh (sh) m
• Slovene: ceh (sl)
• Swedish: skrå (sv) n, gille (sv) n

References

• The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, 2000, Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009
• Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, HarperCollins Publishers, 2003