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English
Alternative forms
(obsolete) gild
Etymology
From Middle English gilde, from Old Norse gildi (“payment, guild”). Related to geld, yield, yauld.
Pronunciation
Noun
guild (plural guilds)
- A group or association mainly of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans for mutual aid, particularly in the Middle Ages.
- A corporation.
- (ecology) A group of diverse species that share common characteristics or habits.
- (video games) An organized group of players who regularly play together in a multiplayer game.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
association of tradespeople
- Armenian: գիլդիա (hy) (gildia), համքարություն (hy) (hamkʻarutʻyun)
- Bulgarian: еснаф (bg) m (esnaf), гилдия (bg) f (gildija)
- Catalan: corporació (ca), confraria (ca), ram (ca) m, gremi (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 行會/行会 (zh) (hánghuì), 同業公會/同业公会 (zh) (tóngyè gōnghuì), 公會/公会 (zh) (gōnghuì)
- Czech: cech (cs) m
- Danish: lav (da)
- Dutch: gilde (nl) n
- Esperanto: gildo (eo)
- Finnish: kilta (fi)
- French: guilde (fr) f
- Galician: gremio m, confraría f
- German: Gilde (de) f, Zunft (de) f
- Greek:
- Ancient: συντεχνία f (suntekhnía)
- Hindi: संगठन (hi) m (saṅgṭhan), संगम (hi) m (saṅgam)
- Hungarian: céh (hu)
- Ido: gildo (io)
- Indonesian: gilda
- Irish: gild m (historical), cuallacht f
- Italian: gilda, fraglia f
- Japanese: ギルド (girudo), 公会 (ja) (kōkai), 行会 (yukiai, gyōkai, kōkai)
- Latin: collēgium n, gilda, ghilda, confrāternitās f
- Latvian: cunfte f, amats (lv) m
- Lithuanian: gildija
- Low German:
- German Low German: gill
- Macedonian: еснаф (esnaf), цех m (ceh)
- Malay: perseikatan
- Norwegian: laug
- Ottoman Turkish: لونجه (lonca)
- Polish: gildia (pl), cech (pl)
- Portuguese: guilda (pt) f, grêmio (pt), confraria (pt)
- Russian: ги́льдия (ru) f (gílʹdija)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: це̏х m
- Roman: cȅh (sh) m
- Slovene: ceh (sl)
- Spanish: germanía (es) f, gremio (es) m
- Swedish: skrå (sv) n, gille (sv) n
- Tagalog: gremyo
- Thai: สมาคมอาชีพ
- Welsh: urdd f
- Zazaki: gome
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See also
References
- The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, 2000, Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009
- Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, HarperCollins Publishers, 2003