Definitions for gild

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Spelling: [gild]

IPA: /gɪld/

Gild is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in gild (dgil).

Definitions for gild

noun

1. guild.
2. an organization of persons with related interests, goals, etc., especially one formed for mutual aid or protection.
3. any of various medieval associations, as of merchants or artisans, organized to maintain standards and to protect the interests of its members, and that sometimes constituted a local governing body.
4. Botany. a group of plants, as parasites, having a similar habit of growth and nutrition.

Idioms

1. gild the lily, to add unnecessary ornamentation, a special feature, etc., in an attempt to improve something that is already complete, satisfactory, or ideal:

verb (used with object)

1. to coat with gold, gold leaf, or a gold-colored substance.
2. to give a bright, pleasing, or specious aspect to.
3. Archaic. to make red, as with blood.

Origin of gild

1300-50; Middle English gilden, Old English -gyldan; akin to gold

Examples for gild

It is not necessary to gild the background to produce a fine effect.

He undertook to gild and letter books at his customers' own houses.

There is gold enough there to gild the walls and ceiling, if it were beaten thin.

It required a little euphemism to gild the real state of affairs.

To paint or gild a ceiling of this kind only attracts attention to its ugliness.

If it is desired to gild the inside of a glass vessel, Solution No.

They were so attached to a goat that they wanted to gild its horns.

You can gild the nutshell after the glue has hardened or leave it as it is.

See how it seems to gild everything as the light rises, Dolly!

gild the three points on the top to make them look as if made of brass.