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Yes. The word gild is a Scrabble US word. The word gild is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word gild is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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4-letter words (2 found)

GILD,GLID,

3-letter words (4 found)

DIG,GID,LID,LIG,

2-letter words (4 found)

DI,GI,ID,LI,

You can make 10 words from gild according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of gild

gild

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɪld/
  • Rhymes: -ɪld
  • Homophones: gilled, guild

Etymology 1

From Middle English gilden, gulden, from Old English gyldan (“to gild, to cover with a thin layer of gold”), from Proto-West Germanic *gulþijan, from Proto-Germanic *gulþijaną, from Proto-Germanic *gulþą (“gold”).

Verb

gild (third-person singular simple present gilds, present participle gilding, simple past and past participle gilded or gilt)

  1. (transitive) To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf.
    Hypernym: gold
  2. (transitive) To adorn.
  3. (transitive, cooking) To decorate with a golden surface appearance.
    Hypernym: gold
  4. (transitive) To give a bright or pleasing aspect to.
  5. (transitive) To give a brilliant colour or flush to one's face; (also) to make appear drunk.
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

Noun

gild (plural gilds)

  1. Obsolete spelling of guild.

See also

  • gild on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • DILG, glid

Gothic

Romanization

gild

  1. Romanization of 𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌳

Irish

Etymology

From English guild.

Noun

gild m (genitive singular gild, nominative plural gildeanna)

  1. (historical) guild
    Synonym: cuallacht

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gild”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • “guild”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
  • de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “gild”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

Middle Scots

Alternative forms

  • gyld

Etymology

Of unknown origin. Possibly from Old Norse galdr (“charm, spell”), from Proto-Germanic *galdraz (“song, singing”). Compare with Ulster Irish goldar (“roar, loud noise”).

Noun

gild

  1. noise; clamour [from c. 1500]

Further reading

  • “Gild, Gyld, n.2”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse gildr, from Proto-Germanic *gildiz. Cognates include Icelandic gildur and Scots yauld.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jɪlː/

Adjective

gild (neuter gildt, definite singular and plural gilde, comparative gildare, indefinite superlative gildast, definite superlative gildaste)

  1. (also law) valid
    Antonym: ugild
  2. nice, healthy, rich, capable
  3. kind, good
  4. enjoyable
  5. happy
  6. proud

Derived terms

  • gilda (verb)

Related terms

  • gilde n
  • gjelda

References

  • “gild” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jild/, [jiɫd]

Noun

ġild n

  1. Alternative form of ġield

Declension

Strong a-stem:

Old Norse

Adjective

gild

  1. strong feminine nominative singular of gildr
  2. strong neuter nominative plural of gildr
  3. strong neuter accusative plural of gildr

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