German

Noun

Gilden f

1. plural of Gilde

English

Adjective

gilden ‎(comparative more gilden, superlative most gilden)

1. (obsolete) Golden; made of gold.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, Visions of the World's Vanity:

     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

Anagrams

• Dingle, dingle, elding

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

gilden

1. plural past indicative and subjunctive of gillen

German

Alternative forms

• gülden

Etymology

From a colloquial merger of various dialectal forms of gelten and the related (obsolete) gülten. Compare for example Alemannic German gülte, gilde, Rhine Franconian gille, Central Franconian jelle, jölde.

Verb

gilden ‎(third-person singular simple present gildet, past tense gildete, past participle gegildet, auxiliary haben)

1. (colloquial, chiefly childish) to count; to be valid

   Nee, das gildet nich’! Ich war noch gar nich’ fertig!‎

   No, that doesn’t count! I wasn’t even ready yet!

Usage notes

• Although this verb is fully conjugable, the 3rd-person singular present gildet is by far the commonest form. It is often used as if it were a form of gelten, thus instead of standard gilt.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• gelten