gilden
/ˈɡɪldən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.49 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In summer's day, when Phœbus fairly shone / I saw a Bull as white as driven snow / With gilden horns embowéd like the moon / In a fresh flow'ring meadow lying low"
- "A little of his pleasure was in the anticipation of seeing Southern Italy in bloom, now that spring is there. But George had a cold. He went to the Moses Taylor hospital. Next week when the great ship docks in Southern Italy, perhaps the sun will be gildening, there will be color and laughter at the dock, for the Italians are a happy race; but George will not be there."
- "Cover of Gospel book with relic of Holy Cross made of Silver, gildened with enamel rosettas."
- "You were mine: In your early morning's gildening ray I first became aware of bliss and pain, - Pure like a pearl."
Etymology
From Middle English gilden, gelden, gulden, from Old English gylden, from Proto-West Germanic *gulþīn, from Proto-Germanic *gulþīnaz (“golden”), from *gulþą (“gold”), equivalent to gold + -en. Cognate with Dutch gulden, German gülden, Swedish gyllen.
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Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
more gilden (comparative)
most gilden (superlative)
gildens (present, singular)
gildening (participle, present)
gildened (participle, past)
gildened (past)