gild

1. 1.

   decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold

   Synonymsbegildengild

   Broaderdecorate

Other forms of gild

plural

gilds·

past tense or participle

gilt

present participle

gilding·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gild

What does gild mean?

gild means "a formal association of people with similar interests". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gild?

gild has 1 syllable: gild. In IPA it is /ˈɡɪld/.

What is another word for gild?

Close synonyms include club, social club, society, guild, lodge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gild a common word?

gild is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with gild?

1 word rhymes with gild. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.