name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
guild
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ɡɪld/
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rhymes with -ɪld
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homophone: gild
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homophone: gilled
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name
Meaning 2
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Texas County, Missouri.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 3
A place in the United States:
A community in the town of Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
A group or association mainly of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans, particularly in the Middle Ages, established to oversee and protect their specific commercial interests and to provide mutual aid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
A corporation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 6
A group of diverse species that share common characteristics or habits.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, ecology, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 7
An organized group of players who regularly play together in a multiplayer game.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: video-games
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noun
Meaning 8
a formal association of people with similar interests
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he joined a golf club
- they formed a small lunch society
- men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: club, social club, society, gild, lodge, order
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: association
Narrower terms: athenaeum, atheneum, bookclub, chapter, chess club, country club, fraternity, frat, glee club, golf club, hunt, hunt club, investors club, jockey club, racket club, rowing club, slate club, sorority, turnverein, yacht club, boat club, service club
History
Etymology
From Middle English gilde, from Old Norse gildi (“payment, guild”). Related to geld, yield, yauld.
Across languages
Translations
69 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: գիլդիա (gildia) — association of tradespeople
- Armenian: համքարություն (hamkʻarutʻyun) — association of tradespeople
- Bulgarian: еснаф (esnaf) — association of tradespeople
- Bulgarian: гилдия (gildija) — association of tradespeople
- Catalan: corporació — association of tradespeople
- Catalan: confraria — association of tradespeople
- Catalan: ram — association of tradespeople
- Catalan: gremi — association of tradespeople
- Chinese Mandarin: 行會 /行会 (hánghuì) — association of tradespeople
- Chinese Mandarin: 同業公會 /同业公会 (tóngyè gōnghuì) — association of tradespeople
- Chinese Mandarin: 公會 /公会 (gōnghuì) — association of tradespeople
- Czech: cech — association of tradespeople
- Danish: lav — association of tradespeople
- Danish: gilde — association of tradespeople
- Dutch: gilde — association of tradespeople
- Esperanto: gildo — association of tradespeople
- Finnish: kilta — association of tradespeople
- French: guilde — association of tradespeople
- Galician: gremio — association of tradespeople
- Galician: confraría — association of tradespeople
- German: Gilde — association of tradespeople
- German: Zunft — association of tradespeople
- Ancient Greek: συντεχνία (suntekhnía) — association of tradespeople
- Hindi: संगठन (saṅgṭhan) — association of tradespeople
- Hindi: संगम (saṅgam) — association of tradespeople
- Hungarian: céh — association of tradespeople
- Ido: gildo — association of tradespeople
- Indonesian: gilda — association of tradespeople
- Irish: gild — association of tradespeople
- Irish: cuallacht — association of tradespeople
- Italian: gilda — association of tradespeople
- Italian: fraglia — association of tradespeople
- Japanese: ギルド (girudo) — association of tradespeople
- Japanese: 公会 (kōkai) — association of tradespeople
- Japanese: 行会 (yukiai, gyōkai, kōkai) — association of tradespeople
- Latin: collēgium — association of tradespeople
- Latin: gilda — association of tradespeople
- Latin: ghilda — association of tradespeople
- Latin: confrāternitās — association of tradespeople
- Latvian: cunfte — association of tradespeople
- Latvian: amats — association of tradespeople
- Lithuanian: gildija — association of tradespeople
- Low German: gill — association of tradespeople
- Macedonian: еснаф (esnaf) — association of tradespeople
- Macedonian: цех (ceh) — association of tradespeople
- Malay: perseikatan — association of tradespeople
- Norwegian: laug — association of tradespeople
- Polish: gildia — association of tradespeople
- Polish: cech — association of tradespeople
- Portuguese: guilda — association of tradespeople
- Portuguese: grêmio — association of tradespeople
- Portuguese: confraria — association of tradespeople
- Russian: ги́льдия (gílʹdija) — association of tradespeople
- Serbo-Croatian: це̏х — association of tradespeople
- Serbo-Croatian: cȅh — association of tradespeople
- Slovene: ceh — association of tradespeople
- Spanish: germanía — association of tradespeople
- Spanish: gremio — association of tradespeople
- Swedish: skrå — association of tradespeople
- Swedish: gille — association of tradespeople
- Tagalog: gremyo — association of tradespeople
- Thai: สมาคมอาชีพ — association of tradespeople
- Turkish: esnaf — association of tradespeople
- Ottoman Turkish: اصناف (esnâf) — association of tradespeople
- Ottoman Turkish: صنف (sınf, sınıf) — association of tradespeople
- Ottoman Turkish: لونجه (lonca) — association of tradespeople
- Vietnamese: phường hội — association of tradespeople
- Welsh: urdd — association of tradespeople
- Zazaki: gome — association of tradespeople
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