aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden
(adjective) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; “long aureate (or golden) hair”; “a gold carpet”
gilt, gilding
(noun) a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold
gild, begild, engild
(verb) decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold
Source: WordNet® 3.1
gilt (usually uncountable, plural gilts)
(uncountable) Gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding.
(uncountable, by extension) Gold-colored paint or other coating.
(uncountable, slang) Money.
(countable, finance) A security issued by the Bank of England (see gilt-edged)
(obsolete, uncountable) A gilded object, an object covered with gold.
gilt (comparative more gilt, superlative most gilt)
Golden coloured.
gilt
simple past tense and past participle of gild
See geld.
gilt (plural gilts)
A young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding.
Source: Wiktionary
Gilt, n. Etym: [See Geld, v. t.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: A female pig, when young.
Gilt,
Definition: imp. & p. p. of Gild.
Gilt, p. p. & a.
Definition: Gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden yellow. "Gilt hair" Chaucer.
Gilt, n.
1. Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of a thing; gilding. Shak.
2. Money. [Obs.] "The gilt of France." Shak.
Gild, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gilded or Gilt (p. pr. & vb. n. Gilding.] Etym: [AS. gyldan, from gold gold. sq. root234. See Gold.]
1. To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold. "Gilded chariots." Pope. No more the rising sun shall gild the morn. Pope.
2. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten. Let oft good humor, mild and gay, Gild the calm evening of your day. Trumbull.
3. To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie. Shak.
4. To make red with drinking. [Obs.] This grand liquior that hath gilded them. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 January 2025
(adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north; “my left hand”; “left center field”; “the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
