gulden

See also: Gulden and gülden

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Dutch (shortened from) gulden (florijn), "golden (florin)".

Noun

gulden (plural guldens or gulden)

1. (historical) An old currency of the Netherlands (and its overseas territory the Netherlands Antilles).

Synonyms

• guilder

Derived terms

• guilder

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

• ledung, lunged, ungeld

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Dutch

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) From Middle Dutch guldijn, guldin, gulden, from Old Dutch *guldīn, from Proto-Germanic *gulþīnaz. Equivalent to goud +‎ -en, replaced in modern Dutch with gouden.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɣʏl.dən/

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• Hyphenation: gul‧den
• Rhymes: -ʏldən

Adjective

gulden (not comparable)

1. golden, made of gold
2. (figurative) precious, excellent

Inflection

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

Synonyms

• gouden

Noun

gulden m (plural guldens, diminutive guldentje n)

1. gulden, guilder, the Dutch currency till the introduction of the Euro

Synonyms

• ƒ, fl

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Middle English

Adjective

gulden

1. Alternative form of gilden

References

• “gī̆lden (adj.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 April 2018.

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Swedish

Noun

gulden

1. (deprecated template usage) definite plural of guld