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Gilt-edged

Definition: Gilt-edged

Gilt-edged

Adjective

1. Of the highest quality or value; "gilt-edged securities"; "gilt-edged credentials".

2. Having gilded edges as the pages of a book.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "gilt-edged" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references)


Crosswords: Gilt-edged

English words defined with "gilt-edged": Gilt-edgelong-datedRoxburghshort-dated. (references)
Specialty definitions using "gilt-edged": gilt-edged stockmedium-dated gilt-edged stockpublic bonds, public sector bondshort-dated security. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Gilt-edged

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Gilt-edged

"Gilt-edged" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.65% of the time. "Gilt-edged" is used about 69 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)95.65%6641,290
Noun (singular)4.35%3202,518
                    Total100.00%69N/A

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

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Modern Translation: Gilt-edged

Language Translations for "gilt-edged"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shumë i mirë (admirable, first rate, Lummy, rare, tiptop), me anët të praruara. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مذهب الأطراف, ‏طلى الأطراف. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

с позлатени краища, екстра (cool, crack-a-jack, extra, first rate, goluptious, nailing, primely, rattling, ripping, slick), първокласен (champion, classic, classical, clinking, exclusive, first class, first rate, five-star, number one, posh, prize, pucka, pukka, ranking, scratch, slap up, slashing, swell, top notch, topflight, top-hole). (various references)

   

Czech

  

se zlatou ořízkou. (various references)

   

Danish

  

guldrandet papir (blue chip, bond issued by the State, first-class papers, gilt-edged security, gilt-edged stock, Government bond, Government stock, governmental bond, public bonds, public sector bond, security of trustee status, State bond, trustee security), værdipapir,i hvilket umyndiges midler kan anbringes (blue chip, first-class papers, gilt-edged security, security of trustee status, trustee security), statsobligation med mellemlang løbetid (medium, medium-dated gilt-edged stock), statsobligation ellerog statsgaranteret obligation (annuity, gilt, gilt-edged security), statsobligation (bond issued by the State, gilt-edged security, Government bond, Government stock, governmental bond, medium-term Treasury bond, State bond, Treasury certificate, Treasury note), offentlig obligation (gilt-edged stock, public bonds, public sector bond), fonds (funds, gilt-edged stock, public bonds, public sector bond). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

goudgerande waarden (bond issued by the State, gilt-edged security, Government bond, Government stock, governmental bond, State bond), goudgerande waarde (blue chip, first-class papers, gilt-edged security, security of trustee status, trustee security), goudgerand waardepapier (gilt-edged stock, public bonds, public sector bond), staatsobligatie (bond issued by the State, gilt-edged security, Government bond, Government stock, governmental bond, State bond), rente (income, interest, percent, percentage, return), overheidsobligatie (bond issued by the State, gilt-edged security, gilt-edged stock, Government bond, Government stock, governmental bond, public bonds, public sector bond, State bond), overheidsfondsen (gilt-edged stock, public bonds, public sector bond), middellange termijn (medium, medium-dated gilt-edged stock), lijfrente (annuity, gilt, gilt-edged security). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

medium (medium, medium-dated gilt-edged stock). (various references)

   

French

  

doré sur tranche. (various references)

   

German

  

mündelsicher. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

επίχρυσοσ (gilt), αριστήσ ποιότητοσ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

aranyszegélyû, aranymetszésû. (various references)

   

Italian

  

di prim'ordine (super, top class). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

優良 (blue chip, blue chip stock, gilt-edged stock). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ゆうりょうかぶ (blue chip, blue chip stock, gilt-edged stock). (various references)

   

Manx

  

airh-oirrit (gold-rimmed). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ilt-edgedgay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

de borda dourada. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

с золотым обрезом, первоклассный (bang-up, capital, champion, classy, first class, first rate, first-rate, hunky-dory, lummy, pucka, pukka, splendid, sterling, super, tiptop, top flight, topflight, top-flight, top-hole, top-line, topnotch, top-notch, top-quality). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pozlaćenih ivica. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

valorizado de máxima garantía, con cantos dorados. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

guldkantad (gold-rimmed), med guldsnitt. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

güvenilir (above suspicion, authentic, bankable, calculable, certain, confidential, credible, creditable, dependable, regular, reliable, responsible, right hand, secure, solid, sound, stalwart, stanch, staunch, straight, sure, tried, trustworthy, trusty, unfailing, unsuspicious, worthy of credit), sağlam (able bodied, bankable, bouncing, calculable, cast iron, consolidated, dyed in grain, fast, firm, flat-footed, foolproof, foursquare, good, granitic, Hale, hard, healthy, hearty, indissoluble, invulnerable, lusty, responsible, rugged, runproof, safe, scatheless, secure, secured, solid, sound, stable, stalwart, stanch, staunch, steady, steely, stout, strong, sturdy, substantial, substantive, sure, tough, unfaltering, unshakable, unshaken, valid, whole), kenarı yaldızlı. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

із золотим обрізом, перешокласний (screaming, super). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Gilt-edged

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-g-g-i-l-t"

-3 letters: dieted, digged, edited, elegit, elided, gelded, giglet, gilded, glided, legged.

-4 letters: deled, edged, edile, egged, elide, elite, gelid, glede, gleed, gleet, glide, idled, ledge, legit, liege, tided, tilde, tiled.

-5 letters: deed, deet, deil, dele, deli, delt, died, diel, diet, dite, edge, edit, eide, geed, geld, gelt, gied, gild, gilt, gled, glee, gleg, idle.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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