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say it: GIL-dur
gilder is a noun meaning "someone whose occupation is to apply an overlay of gold or gilt". It carries one recorded sense.
someone whose occupation is to apply an overlay of gold or gilt
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gilder come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.