Gild

Definitions: Gild

Gild

Noun

1. A formal association of people with similar interests; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today".

Verb

1. Decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold.

Date "gild" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Mining	To wash over or overlay thinly with gold; coat with gold, either in leaf or powder, or by electroplating; as, to gild a chandelier. To overlay with any other substance for the purpose of giving the appearance of gold. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Gild

Synonyms: club (n), guild (n), lodge (n), order (n), society (n), begild (v), engild (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Beauty	Render beautiful; Adjective: beautify; polish, burnish; gild; (decorate); set out.
Covering	Coat, paint, varnish, pay, incrust, stucco, dab, plaster, tar; wash; besmear, bedaub; anoint, do over; gild, plate, japan, lacquer, lacker, enamel, whitewash; parget; lay it on thick.
Deception	Decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle; entrap, intrap, ensnare; nick, springe; set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for; bait the hook, forelay, spread the toils, lime; trapan, trepan; kidnap; let in, hook in; nousle, nousel; blind a trail; enmesh, immesh; shanghai; catch, catch in a trap; sniggle, entangle, illaqueate, hocus, escamoter, practice on one's credulity; hum, humbug; gammon, stuff up, sell; play a trick upon one, play a practical joke upon one, put something over on one, put one over on; balk, trip up, throw a tub to a whale; fool to the top of one's bent, send on a fool's errand; make game, make a fool of, make an April fool of, make an ass of; trifle with, cajole, flatter; come over; (influence); gild the pill, make things pleasant, divert, put a good face upon; dissemble.
Flattery	Lay the flattering unction to one's soul, gild the pill, make things pleasant.
Motive	Tamper with, bribe, suborn, grease the palm, bait with a silver hook, gild the pill, make things pleasant, put a sop into the pan, throw a sop to, bait the hook.
Ornament	Smarten, furbish, polish, gild, varnish, whitewash, enamel, japan, lacquer, paint, grain.
Pain	Make things pleasant, popularize, gild the pill, sugar-coat the pill, sweeten.
Redundancy	Send coals to Newcastle, carry coals to Newcastle, carry owls to Athens; teach one's grandmother to suck eggs; pisces natare docere;kill the slain, " gild refined gold", "gild the lily", butter one's bread on both sides, put butter upon bacon; employ a steam engine to crack a nut; (waste).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Gild

English words defined with "gild": Deaurate ♦ El Doradoes ♦ Inaurate ♦ Overgild ♦ processed ♦ refined, Regild. (references)

Specialty definitions using "gild": Coterie' ♦ Gild the Pill ♦ Soft Words Butter no Parsnips ♦ To HAZEL GILD. (references)

Etymologies containing "gild": Aurate ♦ Guild ♦ Octogild, Orfgild. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Gild" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Manx (guild).

Domain	Title
Books	Company Report: FOR GILEAD SCIENCES(GILD) provided BY J.P. MORGAN H&Q [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) Daily Note: FOR GILEAD SCIENCES(GILD) provided BY BEAR STEARNS COMPANIES, INC. (THE) [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) Gild the Morning Sky (reference) Market Guide / ProVestor Plus Company Report for Gilead Sciences, Inc. - GILD [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) Morningstar Stock Research Report GILD : [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Gild" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 68.75% of the time. "Gild" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	68.75%	11	106,044
Noun (singular)	31.25%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	16	N/A

Expressions using "gild": gild master ♦ gild the lily ♦ gild the pill. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "gild"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shkëlqej (blaze, bloom, flame, flash, fulgurate, glare, gleam, glint, glisten, glister, glitter, glory, glow, light, polish, scintillate, shed, shine), praroj (encrust, overgild). (various references)

Arabic		‏موه (camouflage, whitewash), ‏طلى بالذهب, ‏ذهب (be, betake, gang, go, gold, leave, repair), ‏أعطى الشئ مظهرا جذابا. (various references)

Bulgarian		разкрасявам (beautify, dress up, embellish, embroider, furbish, ornament, prettify, pretty), позлатявам (gold plate, load with money, overgild, plate). (various references)

Chinese		鍍金 (gilt), 镀金 (Gilded), 包金 (cover with gold leaf). (various references)

Czech		pozlatit. (various references)

Danish		overstrygning med æggeblomme (to gild, to glaze), forgylde bogens snit (gild the edges of a book). (various references)

Dutch		vergulden (gilding, gold plating). (various references)

Esperanto		orumi, origi. (various references)

Faeroese		gylla. (various references)

Farsi		مطلاکردن , تذهیب کردن , زراندودکردن . (various references)

Finnish		silata kullalla (plate with gold), kullata. (various references)

French		dorer (to gild). (various references)

German		vergolden (bathe in gold, gilded, gilding, gilt, gold plate, gold plating, paint gold, plating). (various references)

Greek		επιχρυσώνω (gold-plate, guild). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"ז�"יב, לצפות בז�"ב. (various references)

Hungarian		bearanyoz (gilt, overgild, to gild), aranyoz (gold plate, to plate). (various references)

Indonesian		menyepuh, mengemasi (bribe). (various references)

Italian		indorare, dorare (to gild, to glaze). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		金鍍金 (gilding). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		き�"めっき (gilding). (various references)

Manx		coodaghey lesh airh. (various references)

Norwegian		forgylle. (various references)

Pig Latin		ildgay

Portuguese		dourar (electroplate, Goldsmith, overground, varnish). (various references)

Romanian		spoi (silver, tin, varnish, veneer, whiten, whitewash), polei cu aur, mitui (bribe, buy, buy over, corrupt, gratify, grease smb.'s palm, lubricate, nobble, oil smb.'s palms, palm, suborn), auri (plate), înfrumuseţa (adorn, beautify, blazon, color, colour, decorate, embellish, flatter, glorify, grace, lace, ornament, paint, set), împodobi (adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, caparison, deck, deck out, decorate, drape, dress, embellish, encrust, feather, fig, fig out, fringe, garnish, grace, hang with, ornament, pink, prank, robe, set, smarten up, trap, trim). (various references)

Russian		золотить. (various references)

Scottish		òr (gold, va. gild). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pozlatiti (gold plate, overgild), ozariti (kindle, light up). (various references)

Spanish		dorar (Brown, overgild, plate, to brown, to gild, to glaze). (various references)

Swedish		förgylla (gold plate). (various references)

Thai		เคลือบทอง. (various references)

Turkish		güzelleştirmek (adorn, beautify, do up, embellish, face-lift, perk up, prettify, pretty up), yaldızlamak (veneer), süslemek (adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, bedight, caparison, crown, damask, deck out, decorate, dike, dizen, doll out, doll up, dress, dress up, embellish, embroider, enamel, enrich, fancy up, fig out, figure, flourish, garnish, gird, grace, interlard, lace, lard, ornament, prank, prank out, prank up, rig, scrimshaw, set, smarten, tart up, tire, titivate, trick out, trick up, trig out, trig up, trim, zing up, zip, zip up), lonca (guild), esnaf loncası (guild), dernek (association, club, college, corporation, fellowship, fraternity, guild, institution, league, society, union), birlik (alliance, body, brotherhood, coalescence, collaboration, combination, combine, communion, company, confederacy, confederation, conference, contingent, corps, ensemble, establishment, fellowship, force, fraternity, guild, league, legion, oneness, outfit, pool, posse, solidarity, troop, unanimity, union, unit, unity), altın yaldızla süslemek, allayıp pullamak (bedizen, embroider, fancy up, rig, tart up). (various references)

Ukranian		гільдія (guild), золотити, подать. (various references)

Welsh		goreuro, gildio (yield), euro (apply gold, bestow gold). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	aura, auratas, aurem, aures, auro, deaurabis, deaurandos, deaurata, deauratae, deaurato, deauravit, inaurabis, inaurata, inaurati, inaurem, inaures. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "gild": gilded, gilder, gilders, gildhall, gildhalls, gilding, gildings, gilds. (additional references)
	Words ending with "gild": engild, overgild, regild, weregild, wergild. (additional references)
	Words containing "gild": engilded, engilding, engilds, overgilded, overgilding, overgilds, regilded, regilding, regilds, weregilds, wergilds. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Gild" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: agild, dild, eild, gald, gauld, gehd, gelc, ghid, Gid, gidi, gied, giedd, gil, gilad, gilb, gilda, gilde, gildt, Gile, Gilf, gili, gils, gind, gli, glic, glid, glif, glix, goldi, Gulda, gyd, igid, igl, ild, jild. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "gild" (pronounced gi"ld)
4	g i" l d	guild.
3	-i" l d	billed, build, Childe, chilled, distilled, drilled, filled, fulfilled, grilled, instilled, killed, milled, rebuild, refilled, skilled, spilled, stilled, thrilled, unfilled, unfulfilled, unskilled, willed.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-g-i-l"
	-1 letter: dig, gid, lid.
	-2 letters: id, li.
	Words containing the letters "d-g-i-l"
	+1 letter: algid, gelid, gilds, glide, guild.
	+2 letters: algoid, bilged, dialog, diglot, dingle, doling, edgily, engild, fulgid, gilded, gilder, gilled, girdle, glided, glider, glides, glimed, guilds, guiled, idling, lading, ligand, midleg, regild, ridgel, ridgil.
	+3 letters: adagial, addling, aligned, balding, clinged, codling, darling, dealing, deleing, delight, delving, dialing, dialogs, digital, diglots, dingily, dingles, dirling, divulge, doglike, dolling, dueling, dulling, eliding, eluding, engilds, folding, gallied, gaudily, gelding, gelidly, geoidal, giddily, giggled, gilders, gilding, gillied, girdled, girdler, girdles, gladier, glaired, glaived, glenoid, gliadin, gliders, gliding, glinted, globoid, glochid, gloried, godlier, godlike, godlily, godling, goliard, griddle, grilled, guilder, gullied, hidalgo, higgled, hilding, holding, indulge, jiggled, jingled, ladings, ladling, landing, languid, larding, lauding, leading, ledgier, lending, lidding, ligands, ligated, lighted, lingcod, loading, lodging, lording, melding, midlegs, mingled, molding, niggled, obliged, podgily, pudgily, regilds, ridgels, ridgils, rigidly, sidling, singled, sliding, tingled, valgoid, welding, wergild, wiggled, wilding, yodling.
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