guild

See also: Guild

English

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guild

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Alternative forms

• (obsolete) gild

Etymology

From Middle English gilde, from Old Norse gildi (“payment, guild”). Related to geld, yield, yauld.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɪld/
• Rhymes: -ɪld
• Homophones: gild, gilled

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

guild (plural guilds)

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1. A group or association mainly of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans, particularly in the Middle Ages, established to oversee and protect their specific commercial interests and to provide mutual aid.
   • 2003, “Guild of Mute Assassins”, performed by Clutch:

     The swinging of its censers, the silence of its members / Oh, the Guild of Mute Assassins

2. A corporation.
3. (ecology) A group of diverse species that share common characteristics or habits.
4. (video games) An organized group of players who regularly play together in a multiplayer game.

Synonyms

• (medieval professional associations): Hanse (merchants)
• (modern professional associations): trade union, union, professional association

Derived terms

• altar guild
• extraguild
• frithguild
• guildable
• guildic
• guildie
• guildless
• guildlike
• guildmaster
• guildmate
• guildmember
• guildmistress
• guildship
• guildwide
• intraguild

Translations

association of tradespeople

Armenian: գիլդիա (hy) (gildia), համքարություն (hy) (hamkʻarutʻyun) Bulgarian: еснаф (bg) m (esnaf), гилдия (bg) f (gildija) Catalan: corporació (ca), confraria (ca), ram (ca) m, gremi (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 行會 / 行会 (zh) (hánghuì), 同業公會 / 同业公会 (zh) (tóngyè gōnghuì), 公會 / 公会 (zh) (gōnghuì) Czech: cech (cs) m Danish: lav (da) n, gilde n Dutch: gilde (nl) m or f or n Esperanto: gildo (eo) Finnish: kilta (fi) French: guilde (fr) f Galician: gremio m, confraría f German: Gilde (de) f, Zunft (de) f Greek: Ancient: συντεχνία f (suntekhnía) Hindi: संगठन (hi) m (saṅgṭhan), संगम (hi) m (saṅgam) Hungarian: céh (hu) Ido: gildo (io) Indonesian: gilda Irish: gild m (historical), cuallacht f Italian: gilda, fraglia f Japanese: ギルド (girudo), 公会 (ja) (kōkai), 行会 (yukiai, gyōkai, kōkai) Latin: collēgium n, gilda, ghilda, confrāternitās f Latvian: cunfte f, amats (lv) m Lithuanian: gildija Low German: German Low German: gill Macedonian: еснаф (esnaf), цех m (ceh) Malay: perseikatan Norwegian: laug Ottoman Turkish: اصناف (esnâf), صنف (sınf, sınıf), لونجه (lonca) Polish: gildia (pl), cech (pl) Portuguese: guilda (pt) f, grêmio (pt), confraria (pt) Russian: ги́льдия (ru) f (gílʹdija) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: це̏х m Roman: cȅh (sh) m Slovene: ceh (sl) Spanish: germanía (es) f, gremio (es) m Swedish: skrå (sv) n, gille (sv) n Tagalog: gremyo Thai: สมาคมอาชีพ Turkish: esnaf (tr) Vietnamese: phường hội (vi) Welsh: urdd f Zazaki: gome

See also

• (meeting place): guild hall, guildhall, guildsman, guildswoman, common house, common hall

References

• The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, 2000, Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009
• Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, HarperCollins Publishers, 2003