Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Golden.
  • noun Same as gulden.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Gilded.

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  • adjective obsolete Golden; made of gold.

Etymologies

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From Old English gylden, from Proto-Germanic *gulþīnaz (“golden”), from *gulþan (“gold”). Cognate with Dutch gulden, German gülden, Swedish gyllen.

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Examples

  • "Don't bother, lad," Dr. Alquon sniffed, pointing his gilden arquebus at the savage's head.

    notes from the peanut gallery Dean Francis Alfar 2003

  • "Don't bother, lad," Dr. Alquon sniffed, pointing his gilden arquebus at the savage's head.

    Archive 2003-04-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2003

  • Awr gilden Gods ar brought ayen intea awr kirks ilkwhare,

    A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

  • I was down to Rhode Island one summer to larn gilden and bronzin, so as to give the finishin touch to my clocks.

    The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830

  • The eagle-shaped USA Pavilion and Russia's gilden sun-shaped structure anchor one end of the sprawling Expo grounds, Japan's lavender silkworm dome the other.

    ajc.com - News 2010

  • So that the right use of comedy will, I think, by nobody be blamed, and much less of the high and excellent tragedy, that openeth the greatest wounds, and showeth forth the ulcers that are covered with tissue; that maketh kings fear to be tyrants, and tyrants manifest their tyrannical humors; that with stirring the effects of admiration and commiseration teacheth the uncertainty of this world, and upon how weak foundations gilden roofs are builded; that maketh us know: Qui sceptra sævus duro imperio regit,

    The Defense of Poesy 1909

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