gulden

See also: Gulden and gülden

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Middle Dutch gulden (florijn) (“golden (florin)”).

Noun

gulden (plural guldens or gulden)

1. (historical) An old currency of the Netherlands (and its former overseas territory the Netherlands Antilles or the Dutch East Indies).
   • 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter II, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth‎^[1]:

     The wheel spun and stopped at 13. I had lost! With a feeling like a sick qualm, as though I would like to make my way out of the crowd and go home, I staked another fifty gulden—this time on the red.

Synonyms

• guilder

Derived terms

• guilder

References

• “gulden” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.

Anagrams

• ledung, lunged, ungeld

Dutch

Alternative forms

• gl. (noun, abbreviation)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch guldijn, guldin, gulden, from Old Dutch *guldīn, from Proto-West Germanic *gulþīn, from Proto-Germanic *gulþīnaz. Equivalent to goud +‎ -en, replaced in modern Dutch with gouden in most contexts (see there for more).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɣʏl.dən/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: gul‧den
• Rhymes: -ʏldən

Adjective

gulden (not comparable)

1. golden, made of gold

   Synonym: gouden

2. (figurative) precious, excellent, priceless
3. guilded, plated with gold or coated with something resembling gold

   Synonym: verguld

Declension

Declension of gulden
uninflected	gulden
inflected	gulden
comparative	—
		positive
predicative/adverbial		—
indefinite	m./f. sing.	gulden
	n. sing.	gulden
	plural	gulden
definite		gulden
partitive		—

Derived terms

• gulden regel
• gulden sleutelbloem
• gulden snede
• guldenblad
• guldenroede

Noun

gulden m (plural guldens, diminutive guldentje n)

1. the guilder (or florin, abbreviated fl.), the Dutch national currency before the introduction of the Euro in 2002

   Synonyms: florijn, piek, zoof

2. (historical) the Dutch East Indies guilder, the currency of colonial Indonesia prior to its 1945 independence
3. the Netherlands Antillean guilder (now the Caribbean guilder), the national currency circulated in the former Netherlands Antilles (now used in the Caribbean Netherlands).
4. name of several historical gold or silver coins
5. (Suriname, informal, colloquial) the Surinamese dollar

Synonyms

• ƒ, fl

Coordinate terms

• daalder
• stuiver

Derived terms

• duizendguldenkruid
• guldenteken

Descendants

• Berbice Creole Dutch: golu
• Sranan Tongo: golu
  • Aukan: kolu
    • Ndyuka-Trio Pidgin: kolu
  • Saramaccan: kölu
• → Papiamentu: heldu, eldu, gilden
• → Pidgin Delaware: gull
• → Lokono: gulden

Middle English

Adjective

gulden

1. alternative form of gilden

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡul.den/, [ˈɡuɫ.den]

Verb

gulden

1. plural preterite subjunctive of ġieldan

Polish

dziesięć guldenów

Etymology

Borrowed from German Gulden, from Middle High German guldīn, gulden.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡul.dɛn/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -uldɛn
• Syllabification: gul‧den

Noun

gulden m animal

1. (historical) golden guilder (coin)
   • 1890, Bolesław Prus, chapter 2, in David Welsh, transl., Lalka, volume 1:

     Wchodzili tam obaj ze służącym, zapalali parę płomyków gazu i, podczas gdy służący zamiatał podłogę, pan Ignacy odczytywał przez binokle ze swego notatnika rozkład zajęć na dzień dzisiejszy.
      — Oddać w banku 800 rubli, aha... Do Lublina wysłać trzy albumy, tuzin portmonetek... Właśnie!... Do Wiednia przekaz na 1.200 guldenów... Z kolei odebrać transport... Zmonitować rymarza za nieodesłanie walizek... Bagatela!... Napisać list do Stasia... Bagatela...

     He and the servant went in, lit a few little gas-jets and, while the servant was sweeping the floor, Ignacy perused his timetable for the day through his eye-glasses:
     ‘Put 800 roubles into the bank, hm ... Three albums and a dozen wallets to be dispatched in Lublin ... That's it! An order to Vienna for 1,200 guldens ... A mere nothing, to be sure! Write to Staś ... Oh, a mere nothing ...’

2. (historical) gulden (former unit of currency of Austria-Hungary)
3. (historical) guilder, gulden (former unit of currency of the Netherlands)
4. (historical) gulden (former unit of currency of the Free City of Danzig)
5. (historical) guilder (former unit of currency of Suriname)

Conjugation

Declension of gulden

	singular	plural
nominative	gulden	guldeny
genitive	guldena	guldenów
dative	guldenowi	guldenom
accusative	guldena	guldeny
instrumental	guldenem	guldenami
locative	guldenie	guldenach
vocative	guldenie	guldeny

Derived terms

adjective

• guldenowy

noun

• guldenówka

Further reading

• gulden in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• gulden in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French gulden.

Noun

gulden m (plural guldeni)

1. gulden, guilder

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	gulden	guldenul		guldeni	guldenii
genitive-dative	gulden	guldenului		guldeni	guldenilor
vocative	guldenule			guldenilor

Swedish

Noun

gulden

1. definite plural of guld