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    guilder (root: guilde)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun guilder has 2 senses
- guilder(n = noun.quantity) florin, gulden - the basic unit of money in Suriname; equal to 100 cents; Array is a kind of surinamese monetary unit
- guilder(n = noun.quantity) dutch florin, florin, gulden - formerly the basic unit of money in the Netherlands; equal to 100 cents; Array has parts: cent
is a kind of dutch monetary unit
CIDE DICTIONARY
guilder, n. [D. gulden, orig., golden.  Cf. Golden.]. 
                                            
                                         A Dutch silver coin worth about forty cents; -- called also florin  and gulden .                                                                                 [1913 Webster]                                                                                                                    
                                                                                    OXFORD DICTIONARY
guilder, n.
1 the chief monetary unit of the Netherlands.
2 hist. a gold coin of the Netherlands and Germany.
                    1 the chief monetary unit of the Netherlands.
2 hist. a gold coin of the Netherlands and Germany.
Etymology
                        ME, alt. of Du. gulden: see GULDEN
                                    
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