Past participle of gild (“to cover in gold”), thus meaning literally “(something) covered in gold”. Ultimately related to gold (which see). Compare feed, which is related (similarly by ablaut) to food.
Cognate with Dutch (ver)guld, Icelandic gyllt and Faroese gylt.
Meanings
Golden coloured; gilded.
The Jones man was looking at her hard. Now he reached into the hatch of his vest and fetched out a couple of cigars, everlasting big ones, with gilt bands on them. 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
Past participle of gild (“to cover in gold”), thus meaning literally “(something) covered in gold”. Ultimately related to gold (which see). Compare feed, which is related (similarly by ablaut) to food.
Cognate with Dutch (ver)guld, Icelandic gyllt and Faroese gylt.
Meanings
(uncountable, usually) Gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding.
(broadly, uncountable, usually) Gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding. ▸ Gold-colored paint or other coating.
(slang, uncountable, usually) Money.
three corrupted men […]
Have, for the gilt of France,—O guilt indeed!—
Confirm'd conspiracy with fearful France 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, prologue]:
(UK, countable, usually) A security (usually a bond) issued by the Bank of England (see gilt-edged).
However, as asset prices slumped over the week – including UK government bonds, or gilts – those banks required more collateral to offset the pension funds’ liabilities, forcing the funds to dump assets and raise cash at short notice. 2022 September 29, Kalyeena Makortoff, Sarah Butler, “‘I’d never seen anything like it’: how market turmoil sparked a pension fund selloff”, in The Guardian:
higher gilt yields
(obsolete, uncountable, usually) A gilded object, an object covered with gold.
The parysh of Seint Powle in Norwiche. Thomas Blocke, George Wylson, Churchwardens. Have sold in plate, gylte and parcell gylte, to the summe of iiij ownce, every ownce at the price of iiijs. viijd. 1864, “Returns of Church Goods in The Churches of the City of Norwich”, in Commission of 6 Edward VI, 1552, quoted in Norfolk Archaeology, Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, page 371:
cs pozlacení (gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding) · it indorato (gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding) · de Vergoldung (gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding) · sh pozlata (gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding) · mk ва́рак (gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding) · sh позлата (gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding) · ka ვარაყი (gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding) · ru бабло (money) · ka ქანდა (gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding) · cs pozlátko (gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding) · la aurātūra (gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding) · uk позолота (gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding) · bg варак (gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding) · ka ფული (money) · cs zlacení (gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding) · mk по́злата (gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding) · it doratura (gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding) · bg позлата (gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding) · ru позоло́та (gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding)
Past participle of gild (“to cover in gold”), thus meaning literally “(something) covered in gold”. Ultimately related to gold (which see). Compare feed, which is related (similarly by ablaut) to food.
Cognate with Dutch (ver)guld, Icelandic gyllt and Faroese gylt.
Meanings
(form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of gild
The sun was rising; it gilt the hill tops and gradually threw its lustre over the dark pine forests on the mountain slopes. 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 89:
From Middle English gilt, gylt, from Old Norse gyltr; compare geld and yelt.
Meanings
(UK, regional) A young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding.
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Translations (6)
nl gelt (A young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding.) · bg млада женска свиня (A young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding.) · da gylt (A young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding.) · cmn 青年母豬 /青年母猪 (A young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding.) · nds-de Jelten (A young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding.) · ru подсви́нок (A young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding.)