GUILD
\ɡˈɪld], \ɡˈɪld], \ɡ_ˈɪ_l_d]\
Definitions of GUILD
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A guildhall.
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A religious association or society, organized for charitable purposes or for assistance in parish work.
By Oddity Software
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A guildhall.
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A religious association or society, organized for charitable purposes or for assistance in parish work.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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(orig.) An association in a town where payment was made for mutual support and protection: an association of men for mutual aid: a corporation.
By Daniel Lyons
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An association of workmen or others.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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An association of workers for mutual protection or cooperation.
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Etc. Same as GILD, etc.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Anglo-Saxon] A corporation; a society or fraternity of merchants or tradesmen bound by their own laws, and united for the protection of their class and trade—all the old trades had their several guilds;—in Scotland, a corporation of merchants or tradesmen of all kinds made freemen of the city.
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A society, a corporation, a fraternity.
By Thomas Sheridan
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