Gilded

Definitions: Gilded

Gilded

Adjective

1. Having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet".

2. Based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument".

3. Rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded dining rooms".

4. Made from or covered with gold; "gold coins"; "the gold dome of the Capitol"; "the golden calf"; "gilded icons".

Date "gilded" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Synonyms: Gilded

Synonyms: aureate (adj), deluxe (adj), gilt (adj), gold (adj), golden (adj), luxurious (adj), meretricious (adj), opulent (adj), princely (adj), specious (adj), sumptuous (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Gilded

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Nobility	Personage of distinction, man of distinction, personage of rank, man of rank, personage of mark, man of mark; notables, notabilities; celebrity, bigwig, magnate, great man, star, superstar; big bug; big gun, great gun; gilded rooster; magni nominis umbra; " every inch a king ".
Nonincrease, Decrease	Phrase: " a gilded halo hovering round decay "; " fine by degrees and beautifully less ".
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Gilded

English words defined with "gilded": Aurated ♦ Checklaton, Cordwain ♦ Deaurate ♦ Electro-gilt ♦ gilded flicker, Gilden, gilding metal, gilt-edged, Gold latten, Gold-beaten, Golden rose ♦ Inaurate ♦ meretricious ♦ rococo ♦ specious ♦ Unbegilt ♦ Vermeil. (references)

Specialty definitions using "gilded": Editor ♦ Frost ♦ Gild the Pill, Gilded Chamber ♦ RESTORER, CERAMIC. (references)

Etymologies containing "gilded": Oriel. (references)

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Modern Usage: Gilded

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	Or a beast in a gilded cage (If You Love Somebody Set Them Free; performing artist: Sting)
Movie/TV Titles	The Gilded Cage (1954) Her Gilded Cage (1922) The Gilded Lily (1921) Gilded Lies (1921) The Gilded Dream (1920)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Gilded

Domain	Title
Books	First Four Hundred : New York and the Gilded Age (reference) New York 1880: Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age (reference) The Gilded Age and Later Novels (Library of America) (reference) The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (Penguin Classics) (reference) The Gilded Page: The History and Technique of Manuscript Gilding (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Journal Of The Gilded Age And Progressive Era (reference) (more periodical examples)

Music	Gilded Goldbergs (reference) Gilded Promises (reference) Gilded Shadows (reference) Gilded Stars and Zealous Hearts (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Gilded

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Photo Album: Gilded

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The gilded cage.Credit: Library of Congress.		Maria Vieria standing on a ladder overlooking her abstract sculpture made of gilded aluminum laminae at the Swiss National Exposition in Lausanne, Switzerland.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Massachusetts State Capitol, the gilded dome at night, Boston, Mass.Credit: Library of Congress.		Gilded pediment eagle. Charleston, South Carolina.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Furniture and other home furnishings. Upholstered couch with gilded frame I.Credit: Library of Congress.		Furniture and other home furnishings. Upholstered couch with gilded frame II.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Black coach with gilded wheels drawn by two horses.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Gilded

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	His massive coach, all gilded, with great lily branches painted on the panels, rolled noisily along.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Gilded

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	EDITOR, n. A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus and Aeacus, but is placable with an obolus; a severely virtuous censor, but so charitable withal that he tolerates the virtues of others and the vices of himself; who flings about him the splintering lightning and sturdy thunders of admonition till he resembles a bunch of firecrackers petulantly uttering his mind at the tail of a dog; then straightway murmurs a mild, melodious lay, soft as the cooing of a donkey intoning its prayer to the evening star. Master of mysteries and lord of law, high-pinnacled upon the throne of thought, his face suffused with the dim splendors of the Transfiguration, his legs intertwisted and his tongue a-cheek, the editor spills his will along the paper and cuts it off in lengths to suit. And at intervals from behind the veil of the temple is heard the voice of the foreman demanding three inches of wit and six lines of religious meditation, or bidding him turn off the wisdom and whack up some pathos. O, the Lord of Law on the Throne of Thought, A gilded impostor is he. Of shreds and patches his robes are wrought, His crown is brass, Himself an ass, And his power is fiddle-dee-dee. Prankily, crankily prating of naught, Silly old quilly old Monarch of Thought. Public opinion's camp-follower he, Thundering, blundering, plundering free. Affected, Ungracious, Suspected, Mendacious, Respected contemporaree! J.H. Bumbleshook
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Gilded

"Gilded" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 76.26% of the time. "Gilded" is used about 219 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
Adjective (general or positive)	76.26%	167	24,143
Lexical Verb (past participle)	10.05%	22	74,468
Lexical Verb (past tense)	9.59%	21	76,261
Noun (proper)	3.65%	8	124,375
Noun (common)	0.46%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	219	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Gilded

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "gilded".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Mezahab	N/A	Biblical	Gilded
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expressions: Gilded

Expressions using "gilded": aureate gilded gilt gold golden ♦ gilded cage ♦ gilded flicker ♦ gilded rooster ♦ gilded youth. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "gilded": formerly-gilded, hand-gilded, mercury-gilded, re-gilded, silver-gilded, sun-gilded, water-gilded.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Gilded

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
the gilded age	120	gilded ribbon	3
bit gilded six	17	zora neale hurston the gilded six bit	3
gilded	15	age gilded in monopoly	3
gilded serpent	9	age by gilded mark twain	2
gilded lily	8	gilded man	2
frame gilded	5	age cartoon gilded political	2
gilded mirror	5	age gilded monopoly	2
age gilded picture	4	gilded manor rose	2
gilded cage	3	age gilded urbanization	2
mark twain and the gilded age	3	age gilded sports	2
gilded otter	3	age during gilded monopoly	2
age gilded in politics	3	age gilded president	2
age gilded politics	3	bird in a gilded cage	2
bit by gilded hurston neale six zora	3
		bird in a gilded cage	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Gilded

Language		Translations for "gilded"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i shkëlqyeshëm (de luxe, fulgent, glistening, grand, luminous, magnificent, Orient, refulgent, resplendent, slick, sparkling). (various references)

Arabic		‏مذهب (belief, bossy, doctrine, faith, gilt, ideology, school, teaching). (various references)

Bulgarian		позлатен (aureate, gilt, gold-plated). (various references)

Chinese		镀金 (Gild). (various references)

Czech		pozlacený (golden, golden-plated). (various references)

Dutch		goudleer (stamped and gilded leather). (various references)

French		doreur (Gilder, gilders). (various references)

German		vergoldete (gilt). (various references)

Hungarian		aranyozott (gilt, gold-plated), díszes (arabesque, caparison, fancy, ornate, stately, storied, tidy, tricksy). (various references)

Indonesian		sepuhan, keemasan (golden). (various references)

Italian		dorato (gilt, golden). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		金縁 (gilded edges or rims), 金扇 (gilded folding fan), 金ぴか (gilded splendor). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		き�"ぶち (gilded edges or rims), き�"せ�" (carefully selected, cash, gilded folding fan, heartstrings, money), き�"ぴか (gilded splendor). (various references)

Manx		airhit. (various references)

Pig Latin		ildedgay

Portuguese		dourado (aureate, dolt, Dorado, dory, gilt-edged, gold, golden, orange tint), disfarçar (camouflage, cloak, color, colour, defeature, disguise, dissemble, fudge, mantle, mask, varnish). (various references)

Romanian		camuflat (black-outed, disguised, hidden, masked, secret), aurit (gilt, golden). (various references)

Russian		позолоченный (aureate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pozlaćen (gilt, plated). (various references)

Spanish		dorado (aureate, Dorado, gilding, gilt, golden). (various references)

Thai		ซึ่งเคลือบทอง. (various references)

Turkish		yaldızlı (gilt), altın yaldızlı (gilt). (various references)

Ukranian		позолочений (aureate, gilt, gold-filled). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Gilded

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	auratas. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Gilded

Derivations
	Words ending with "gilded": engilded, overgilded, regilded. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Gilded" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bildad, Gedde, Gidada, Gidlow, gilda, gildas, gilde, gilden, Gildon, gillied, gilte, guilded, gylden. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Gilded"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "gilded" (pronounced gi"ldud)
4	-l d u d	blindfolded, fielded, folded, heralded, melded, molded, remolded, scalded, scolded, shielded, unfolded, unheralded, welded, wielded, yielded.
3	-d u d	abided, abounded, acceded, accorded, added, afforded, aided, alluded, amended, appended, applauded, apprehended, ascended, astounded, attended, avoided, awarded, backhanded, banded, barricaded, beaded, bearded, bedded, befriended, beheaded, bended, bladed, blended, blinded, blindsided, blockaded, blooded, boarded, bombarded, bonded, bounded, braided, branded, breaded, broadsided, brooded, candid, carded, cascaded, ceded, chided, clouded, coded, coincided, collided, colluded, commanded, commended, compounded, comprehended, conceded, concluded, confided, confounded, contended, corded, corresponded, corroded, crowded, decided, deeded, defended, defrauded, degraded, deluded, demanded, denuded, depended, derided, descended, disbanded, discarded, disregarded, dissuaded, distended, divided, downgraded, downloaded, dreaded, dumbfounded, eluded, embedded, encoded, ended, enshrouded, eroded, evaded, evenhanded, exceeded, excluded, expanded, expended, exploded, expounded, extended, extruded, exuded, faded, fended, feuded, flooded, forwarded, founded, funded, glided, goaded, graded, grounded, guarded, guided, handed, hardheaded, headed, heeded, herded, hoarded, homesteaded, hooded, hounded, imbedded, impeded, imploded, impounded, included, intended, interceded, intruded, invaded, jaded, kidded, landed, larded, lauded, leaded, lightheaded, loaded, lopsided, masterminded, mended, minded, misguided, muddleheaded, needed, nodded, offended, outmoded, overcrowded, overextended, overfunded, overloaded, padded, paraded, persuaded, pervaded, pleaded, plodded, pounded, preceded, precluded, prerecorded, presided, pretended, prided, proceeded, prodded, propounded, provided, raided, railroaded, rebounded, receded, recommended, recorded, redheaded, refunded, regarded, reloaded, remanded, reminded, reprimanded, rescinded, resided, responded, retarded, rewarded, rounded, safeguarded, sanded, seceded, secluded, seconded, seeded, serenaded, shaded, shepherded, shredded, shrouded, sided, skidded, sordid, sounded, spearheaded, speeded, splendid, stampeded, stranded, studded, subdivided, subsided, succeeded, superseded, surrounded, suspended, tended, threaded, traded, transcended, trended, unaided, unamended, unattended, unbounded, unbranded, undecided, underfunded, underhanded, undivided, unexploded, unfounded, unfunded, unguarded, unheeded, unimpeded, unintended, unleaded, unloaded, unneeded, unrecorded, upbraided, upgraded, voided, wadded, waded, warded, wedded, weeded, winded, wooded, worded, wounded, wrongheaded.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Gilded

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: glided.
	Words within the letters "d-d-e-g-i-l"
	-1 letter: gelid, glide, idled.
	-2 letters: deil, deli, died, diel, geld, gied, gild, gled, idle, lied.
	-3 letters: del, did, die, dig, eld, ged, gel, gid, gie, led, leg, lei, lid, lie.
	-4 letters: de, ed, el, id, li.
	Words containing the letters "d-d-e-g-i-l"
	+1 letter: girdled, griddle.
	+2 letters: deluding, dialoged, dislodge, divulged, engilded, griddled, griddles, indulged, meddling, peddling, reddling, regilded, sledding.
	+3 letters: begirdled, deadlight, deleading, delighted, dialogued, dislodged, dislodges, engirdled, glissaded, goldfield, impledged, laddering, mislodged, sleddings, treddling.
	+4 letters: befuddling, begladding, bemuddling, daylighted, deadlights, defilading, deridingly, designedly, disobliged, gladdening, goldfields, goodwilled, gridlocked, overgilded, resaddling.
	+5 letters: bobsledding, deadeningly, deadlifting, deadlocking, deglaciated, degradingly, delightedly, demandingly, dendrologic, digitalized, diglyceride, disgruntled, disguisedly, disgustedly, dislodgment, dogsledding, godchildren, goldbricked, griddlecake, ideologized, lifeguarded, lightheaded, maddeningly, misguidedly, pigheadedly, skedaddling.
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