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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun gild has 1 sense
- gild(n = noun.group) club, guild, lodge, order, social club, society - a formal association of people with similar interests; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today" is a kind of association
has particulars: athenaeum, atheneum, bookclub, chapter, chess club, country club, frat, fraternity, glee club, golf club, hunt, hunt club, investors club, jockey club, racket club, rowing club, slate club, sorority, turnverein, boat club, yacht club, service club
Verb gild has 1 sense
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gild, v. t. [AS. gyldan, from gold gold. Gold.].
- To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold. Pope. [1913 Webster]"No more the rising sun shall gild the morn." [1913 Webster]
- To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten. [1913 Webster]"Let oft good humor, mild and gay,
Gild the calm evening of your day." [1913 Webster] - To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- To make red with drinking. [1913 Webster]"This grand liquior that hath gilded them." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
gild, v.tr. (past part. gilded or as adj. in sense 1 gilt)
1 cover thinly with gold.
2 tinge with a golden colour or light.
3 give a specious or false brilliance to.
1 cover thinly with gold.
2 tinge with a golden colour or light.
3 give a specious or false brilliance to.
Idiom
gilded cage luxurious but restrictive surroundings. gilded youth young people of wealth, fashion, and flair. gild the lily try to improve what is already beautiful or excellent.
Derivative
gilder n.
gild, var. of GUILD.
THESAURUS
gild
adorn, apply paint, aurify, bedaub, belie, besmear, brighten, brush on paint, butter, calcimine, camouflage, coat, color, complexion, convolute, cover, dab, daub, decorate, deep-dye, dip, disguise, distemper, distort, double-dye, dress up, dye, elaborate, embellish, emblazon, embroider, enamel, engild, enrich, face, falsify, fast-dye, festoon, flourish, fresco, fudge, garble, gild the lily, glaze, gloss, gloss over, grain, hue, illuminate, imbue, ingrain, involve, japan, jaundice, lacquer, lay on, lay on color, load with ornament, mask, miscite, miscolor, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, ornament, overcharge, overlay, overload, overstate, paint, parget, pervert, pigment, prime, sallow, shade, shadow, shellac, slant, slap on, slather, slop on paint, smear, smear on, spread on, spread with, stain, stipple, strain, sweeten, tar, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, titivate, tone, trick out, turn yellow, twist, undercoat, understate, varnish, warp, wash, whitewash, yellowROGET THESAURUS
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Beauty
VB be beautiful, shine, beam, bloom, become one, set off, grace, render beautiful, beautify, polish, burnish, gild, set out, snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.Ornament
VB ornament, overlay with ornament, overcharge, smell of the lamp, ornament, embellish, enrich, decorate, adorn, bead, beautify, adonize, smarten, furbish, polish, gild, varnish, whitewash, enamel, japan, lacquer, paint, grain, garnish, trim, dizen, bedizen, prink, prank, trick out, fig out, deck, bedeck, dight, bedight, array, begawd, titivate, dress, dress up, spangle, bespangle, powder, embroider, work, chase, emboss, fret, emblazon, illuminate, illustrate, become.Covering
VB cover, superpose, superimpose, overlay, overspread, wrap, encase, incase, face, case, veneer, pave, paper, tip, cap, bind, bulkhead, bulkhead in, clapboard, coat, paint, varnish, pay, incrust, stucco, dab, plaster, tar, wash, besmear, bedaub, anoint, do over, gild, plate, japan, lacquer, lacker, enamel, whitewash, parget, lay it on thick, overlie, overarch, endome, conceal, anodize, galvanize.Orange
VB gild, warm.
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