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gilt¹

  • /ɡɪlt/ US, UK
  • [ɡɪɫt] US, UK

Sounds like GILT, guilt · Rhymes with -ɪlt

Where it comes from

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.

noun gilts

  1. uncountable, usually Gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding.
  2. broadly, uncountable, usually Gold-colored paint or other coating.
  3. slang, uncountable, usually Money. three corrupted men […] Have, for the gilt of France,—O guilt indeed!— Confirm'd conspiracy with fearful France
  4. UK, countable, usually A security (usually a bond) issued by the Bank of England (see gilt-edged). higher gilt yields
  5. 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.

adjective more gilt · most gilt

  1. 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.

verb

  1. 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.

gilt²

  • /ɡɪlt/ US, UK
  • [ɡɪɫt] US, UK

Sounds like GILT, guilt · Rhymes with -ɪlt

Where it comes from

From Middle English gilt, gylt, from Old Norse gyltr; compare geld and yelt.

noun gilts · yilt

  1. UK, regional A young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding.

GILT³

  • /ɡɪlt/ US, UK
  • [ɡɪɫt] US, UK

Sounds like gilt, guilt · Rhymes with -ɪlt

noun

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Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: golden, aureate, gold, colored, chromatic, cloth, parcel, auric, aurous, aurulent, gold-plated, gold-leafed, gold-colored, gilt-edged, oroide, gelt

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noun gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding

DeutschVergoldung
Italianodoratura, indorato
Русскийпозоло́та pozolóta

noun money

Русскийбабло bablo

adj golden coloured

Españoldorado
Portuguêsdourado
Françaisdoré
Deutschgülden
Русскийзолотистый zolotistyj

noun A young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding.

中文青年母豬 /青年母猪 qīngnián mǔzhū
Русскийподсви́нок podsvínok

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@misc{gilt_2026,
  title = {gilt},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gilt},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}