gilden

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
11
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈɡɪldən/

Definition of gilden

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (obsolete)Golden; made of gold.
    “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”
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adj

  1. (obsolete)Golden; made of gold.
    “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”

verb

  1. (ambitransitive)To make or become golden or gilded
    “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.”

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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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